There are apparently two things that the fast food restaurant workers going on strike across the nation want: A $15-an-hour wage and shoes. Lots and lots of shoes.

In a startling number of interviews over the past few months, different strikers at different events all made a point of saying they needed the higher wage to buy shoes.

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