MEGAN MCARDLE has more on the NYC Transit strike:

The people being hurt by the strike, unfortunately, are mostly people who make less than the transit workers do. Small businesses are being gutted by this; the last few days before Christmas is the busiest time of the year for most retail establishments, and their customers can’t get to them. One of the news shows had small businessmen complaining that this was going to bankrupt them, and I’ve no doubt that it’s true for at least some of New York’s retail stores, which often operate on a shoestring.

Meanwhile, poor workers, who tend to work hourly, are losing salary that they can ill-afford.

Read this, too.