I found this to be very wishy-washy on numbers, and using questionable sourcing. For example:
>In the nation’s slaughterhouses, the average worker in 1982 made $24 an hour in inflation-adjusted dollars, or $50,000 a year. Today the average meatpacker processes significantly more meat — and makes less than $14 an hour.
Uh, no. Not really. If this was an honest comparison you'd be comparing their profit output, not meat output. Because the output of significantly more meat does not mean significantly more profit. It can mean significantly less profit. Meat is a razor-thin margin industry.
>Even in the high-flying technology sector, companies have found ways to leave their workers behind. More than half of the people who work for Google do not actually work for Google. They are classified as contractors, which means they do not need to be treated as employees.
Why is a voluntary contract a problem here? Why is this bad?
>The Economic Policy Institute estimates that employers illegally deprive workers of more than $50 billion in wages each year by underpaying them or requiring unpaid work; violators are rarely punished.
So, a union think-tank. Any reputable source?
>And those who waited longest for new opportunities after the 2008 financial crisis have often been among the first to lose their jobs. Black people and women have been especially hard-hit.
Absolute dishonesty, bordering on straight-up lies. Black unemployment is at a 50 year low.
> Americans in the bottom 90 percent of the income distribution would be making an extra $12,000 per year, on average.
This is misleading. $12k sounds like a lot compared to someone making the poverty line, but it's as much compared to a household at the 90-percentile income (~$200k), and high percentile incomes dominate that average because incomes in the bottom 90% are also rather unequally distributed too.
The point that additional wealth has consolidated at the top due to wage stagnation is a fine point to make, but they way they chose to represent it exaggerates the point.
>In the nation’s slaughterhouses, the average worker in 1982 made $24 an hour in inflation-adjusted dollars, or $50,000 a year. Today the average meatpacker processes significantly more meat — and makes less than $14 an hour.
Uh, no. Not really. If this was an honest comparison you'd be comparing their profit output, not meat output. Because the output of significantly more meat does not mean significantly more profit. It can mean significantly less profit. Meat is a razor-thin margin industry.
>Even in the high-flying technology sector, companies have found ways to leave their workers behind. More than half of the people who work for Google do not actually work for Google. They are classified as contractors, which means they do not need to be treated as employees.
Why is a voluntary contract a problem here? Why is this bad?
>The Economic Policy Institute estimates that employers illegally deprive workers of more than $50 billion in wages each year by underpaying them or requiring unpaid work; violators are rarely punished.
So, a union think-tank. Any reputable source?
>And those who waited longest for new opportunities after the 2008 financial crisis have often been among the first to lose their jobs. Black people and women have been especially hard-hit.
Absolute dishonesty, bordering on straight-up lies. Black unemployment is at a 50 year low.