On Monday, Sen. Al Franken, Rep. Sander Levin, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert and Center for American Progress economist Heather Boushey joined unemployed workers to discuss the jobs crisis:
What could they possibly have to discuss in a country where JP f'ing Morgan says
wage reductions have driven corporate profit increases, the
400 richest Americans are paying just over half the taxes they were 12 years ago, two-parent families are
working 26 percent more hours than in 1975 and only earning 23 percent more, and
fading jobless benefits are about to deal another blow to struggling families and the American economy?
Thugs, mythical and otherwise:
In the workplace