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CAT Tracks for May 23, 2015
POWER TO THE PEOPLE |
After decades of growing inequality...
The gap in wealth and income between rich and poor is the worst since the Great Depression, and the gap between the rich and the middle class is at its highest since the government began keeping such statistics 30 years ago. After more than three decades of income growth for the wealthiest 10 percent and stagnation for everybody else, the top 3 percent now has more wealth than the bottom 90 percent.
...growing expectations among workers:
From The Washington Post
Labor rides a building backlash
CAT Tracks Editor's Note:
From the article...
...about damn time!
Solidarity forever...
Trumka likens the moment to the Pullman strike of 1894, when workers, seeing their earnings shrink to starvation levels after an economic depression, finally pushed back. “That’s like the point where we’re at right now in this country: People are p---ed,” Trumka said.
