This morning, I learned some interesting things about the election from the guys waiting for work at Labor Ready on Pratt Street in Baltimore this morning.

I have been gathering some initial data on research I plan to do on the day labor market, looking at policy strategies for supporting workers in this market and fostering upward mobility. Perhaps this is a pulse some of the other wonky types out there - those who are too afraid to get their hands dirty or are to scared of working class people - should put their finger on.

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Yes, I have a chip on my shoulder against removed, upper-class types who have no real world, hard knock experience. I have no problem showing it in my writing. You'd have chip too if you had a 178 IQ, had grown up in the poorest neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago and had to spend 6 years at the University of Wisconsin, Madison with rich kids raised in Edina, Minnesotta and Sussex County New Jersey lecturing you about the so-called 'hood.'