I was talking to Mark, one of the charter members of the Old Crow Book club. He was sitting on his usual sidewalk near the convenience store surrounded by his daily neighborhood haul of redeemable cans and bottle: roughly $25. We discussed the recent history of Oregon's famously unprecedented Bottle Bill, championed and signed into law by the late great former Governor Tom McCall in 1973. It was only in April of 2017 that the state doubled the deposit to ten cents and Mark remembers that day well. He claimed it was like going into “early retirement.” Just like that, the state doubled his minimum wage.
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