j. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pollak" <mpollak at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Monday, September 6, 2010 2:12:41 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Meyerson: How Dismal Is Labor Day
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/05/AR2010090502815.html
Monday, September 6, 2010; A15 Washington Post
Hard Times For Workers on Labor Day 2010 By Harold Meyerson
On Labor Day 2010, the state of America's workers is appalling.
Millions have lost their jobs. Millions have had their lives put on hold or thrown into reverse.
Granted, it's a global recession. The state of the world's workers -- at least in the advanced democracies -- should be equivalently appalling. But it's not. The Great Recession has taken a far greater toll on our nation's workers than on workers in similar countries, even those whose economies have dipped more steeply than ours.