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Throughout American history, whenever workers try to organize, they’re opposed by their employers. That was true in the period of manufacturing, and then with the growth of the service sector. Now,...
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Last night, in a concert with Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn dedicated “Come All You Coal Miners,” by Sarah Ogan Gunning, to the people of Flint, Michigan. Tagged: Abigail Washburn, Appalachia, Béla...
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The new jobs report is out and, pretty much as expected, a bunch of new jobs (242,000, to be exact) were created in February and the official unemployment rate remained the same (at 4.9 percent). But...
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According to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute, on the state of retirement for American workers, two fundamental shifts have occurred in recent decades. First, employers have managed to...
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People are always amazed when I tell them how little American workers have managed to save for retirement—and, thus, why the Social Security system is so important. According to a new report from the...
View ArticleGeneration screwed
Millennials—those born between 1980 and the end of 1994—regularly take a beating in the media. They’re accused of being lazy, self-absorbed, politically apathetic narcissists, who aren’t able to...
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