Real wages are lower today than in 1973. despite the fact that productivity has risen over 80 percent. The benefits of rising productivity are going to the richest members of our society. CEO compensation today is 420 times what it is for our workers. Medical costs have skyrocketed. Good manufacturing jobs are being sent overseas. Many workers are squeezed between the impact of corporate outsourcing on the one hand and wagedepressing effects of immigration on the other. In Virginia. real median hourly wages fell by 3.6 percent just in the past 2 years. Hundreds of thousands of Virginians. just like millions of Americans. have no health insurance.
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