Thursday, January 19, 2012

What Ever Happened to a Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work?


“Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied men and women, a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.”– Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937
Read it at Counterpunch
Working and Poor in the USA
by Bill Quigley
(h/t Kevin Fathi via email)

Our nation is much more richly endowed now after the technological revolution, and we are slipping back the other way.

1 comment:

rodney said...

Milton Friedman.