On the Economic Condition of American Workers

The economic and social situation of American workers is deteriorating. The purchasing power of their earnings is declining, and that decline is barely offset by family incomes bolstered by the earnings of a working wife. Workers’ families thus must work harder if they are to maintain their living standards. The inadequacy of their earnings often arises from a disturbing trend that, though characteristic of the entire postwar period, has gathered force in recent years: the marginalizati...