Robert Reich: How The Oligarchy Shrank America’s Middle Class (Why American Capitalism Is So Rotten, Part VIII) – OpEd

When I was a boy, my father sold dresses and blouses to the wives of factory workers. As the wages of those workers rose through the 1950s, my father earned enough to expand his business to a second shop in another factory town not far away. We were by no means rich, but he earned enough to put us in the middle class.

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