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The trend toward low pay preceded the recession. As Holly Sklar points out:
Today’s retail clerks, health aides, child care workers, restaurant workers, security guards and other minimum wage workers have $6,500 less in annual buying power than their 1968 counterparts.
Let’s see. We have employers who won’t hire unemployed workers, an historically wide wealth gap between black and Latino workers and white workers, a 9.2 percent unemployment rate with almost no job creation and the few jobs that are created don’t pay a living wage.
All this means lawmakers on Capitol Hill are focused on America’s jobs crisis, right? Right? Hello…
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