The 250K pledge is important

[Omaha Steve]

32. It has not always been like this

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/03/03/147994/unions-income-inequality/



By Zaid Jilani on Mar 3, 2011 at 9:55 am

Across the country, right-wing legislators continue their attack on labor unions, claiming that they are saving their states money. Yet in waging these anti-labor campaigns, these politicians are ignoring one very simple fact: unions were a major force in building and sustaining the great American middle class, and as they declined, so has the middle class. As CAP’s Karla Waters and David Madland showed in a report they first published this past January, as union membership has steadily declined since 1967, so too has the middle class’s share of national income, as the super-rich have taken a larger share of national income than any time since the 1920s:

FULL story at link.