The Fight For Workers

On This Labor Day, Hillary Clinton and the Democrats Fight for Workers; Donald Trump and the GOP Wage War on Workers http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-altman/on-this-labor-day-hillary_b_11849720.html

Americans work extremely long hours and are incredibly productive. Yet, for the last three and a half decades, they have not received the just fruits of their labor. From 1948 to 1979, two-thirds of aggregate income growth in the United States went to the bottom 90 percent. But from 1979 onward, nearly two-thirds of growth went to the top 1 percent. Meanwhile, the aggregate income of the bottom 90 percent actually declined!