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How to transform workers' campaign rage into better jobs and wages

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

The presidential campaigns deserve some credit for finally voicing some of the deep frustrations and anger felt by American workers who have lived for decades in an economy that works for those at the top but not for them and their families.

Thirty years of wage stagnation, the loss of one-third of the nation’s manufacturing jobs since 1970,...

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