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Restaurant Industry Worker Votes Could Decide the Election

Chicago, Illinois

We’re one week from Election Day, and my jaw feels permanently clenched, my shoulders are tensed up to my ears, and my hands are cramped into a weird claw from writing hundreds of post cards urging people in swing states to vote.

So, when I talk to chefs who work with young people and hear that their employees don’t feel an urgency to vote, I want to scream, shake them, maybe throw something. But since...