To the Editor: The U.S. has had a growing economy for over ten years—which would seem to be good news. The trouble is, as the Guardian noted earlier this year, “that the U.S. economy is now dominated by high-skill, high-wage jobs and low-skill, low-wage jobs. Gone are many of the middle-skill, middle-wage jobs.”
Many of those “middle-skill, middle-wage” jobs are union jobs like those held by the 4,000 health-care workers I represent. Our public sector jobs, however, are threatened by Federal tax policy that has greatly reduced taxes on the rich and on major corporations.
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