What is the value of work? $3,558.00 v $3.41/h
To put it all into perspective, let’s look at some numbers.
It was reported this week that twenty-five of the 100 largest U.S. corporations paid their chief executives more last year than they paid in federal income taxes
According to today’s Sun-Times editorial, “The vast majority of U.S. workers are fighting over an increasingly small shot at the American dream. America’s gaping income gap —the gulf between top earners and the rest of us — hasn’t been this wide since just before the Great Depression. More than 20 percent of the nation’s income now goes to the richest 1 percent of Americans. This is up from 7 percent in 1980. And the top 10 percent of earners pull in almost half the total income, a level higher than any year since 1917. Meanwhile the middle class,
