We are clearly living in a new Gilded Age. There were Labor Day “workers over billionaires” protests in more than 1,000 places across the U.S., from Alaska to Hawaii, from Maine to California. Most immediately, they protested cuts in minimum wages for federal contractors from $17.75 to $13.30; layoffs of more than 300,000 federal employees, and the 15 p…
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