Our current—and growing—public support for the labor movement has helped buoy a variety of recent union bargaining and organizing victories.
Back in the early 20th century, earnest middle-class reformers out to overturn America’s plutocratic order gravitated to the pages of The Public, a weekly magazine whose editor, Louis Post, would become the U.S. assistant secretary of labor in 1913.One year later, the associate editor of The Public would offer a cutting critique of the legal system that so protected our nation’s plutocratic powers-that-be.
A half-century ago, households in our most affluent 10% had—after taxes and government support programs—about seven times the disposable income of households in our nation’s poorest 20%. That gap in 2021: about 11 times.Another set of alarming data points comes from a new study on intergenerational economic mobility that the Philadelphia Fed has just published.Young people today work disproportionately in fields where wage theft and on-the-job injuries run rampant.
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