09.01.2008 8:34 am

Labor Day: Lost decade for the middle class

For 35 years, Martha Fowler’s life was anchored solidly in America’s middle class. She had a good job, earning $21 an hour with good benefits as an operator and technician for Western Union.

“I liked…

Tags: Census Bureau, Economic Policy Institute, Labor Day, middle class, State of Working America

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05.02.2008 5:40 pm

Slumping on

By Jim Gallagher

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“This economy is going to come on,” Bush said today at World Wide Technology in Maryland Heights today. “I’m confident it will.”

The president is right. The economy will come back, and probably fairly soon. The question is: Will it lift the…

Tags: Bush, Economic Policy Institute, economy, recession, World Wide Technology

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