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The pandemic and lockdowns revealed which workers were “essential”—including healthcare workers, grocery clerks, delivery drivers, meatpacking workers.

“He’s a local celebrity now,” said Shelli Selfridge, a clerk at a convenience store where one of Bradshaw’s flowers graces the pavement and his legal problems are a frequent topic of conversation.

Collins taught home economics in high school and math in junior high before she transitioned into politics, elected clerk of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1975 and then lieutenant governor in 1979.

As America expanded by building canals, steamboats and early railroads, demand soared for wage labor in factories, transportation and among office workers like clerks.

Pen-and-ink clerks who struggled to top 20 words a minute were displaced by typists who could top 60 wpm, especially if they used new touch-typing techniques pioneered by a Cincinnati stenographer, Elizabeth Longley.