OK, this is as good a time to ask what I've been meaning to ask since last spring when I read this article by Kevin Phillips in Harper's:
<http://www.tampabay.com/news/article473596.ece>
Doug, I know that you are (in general) of the opinion that the 'bourgeois' stats are pretty reliable and that it more of an issue how they are read. I also know you don't write off Phillips as merely a populist crank, so what do you think of this article in which he asserts the stats are regularly cooked to the detriment of workers?