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Meet Shymara Jones, a leader in the minimum-wage fight

Two years ago, fast-food worker Shymara Jones was a single mother, living with her mother, siblings, and son in a three-bedroom rowhouse on a worn-down block in the non-gentrified part of Grays Ferry, hard by warehouses and refineries.

Jones working the window at the Popeyes at Broad and Catharine, where she has worked since 2009 and makes $8.50 an hour.
Jones working the window at the Popeyes at Broad and Catharine, where she has worked since 2009 and makes $8.50 an hour.Read moreCLEM MURRAY / Staff Photographer
    by By Jane M. Von Bergen, Staff Writer
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