With corporations socking away massive profits, and with the labor market fairly tight, why are workers’ wages still stuck at miserly, even poverty, levels?
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Jem Sullivan
Populist author, public speaker, and radio commentator Jim Hightower writes The Hightower Lowdown, a monthly newsletter chronicling the ongoing fights by America’s ordinary people against rule by plutocratic elites. Sign up at HightowerLowdown.org.