03/19/2024

Column: Fight for $50,000 careers, not $15 jobs

New congressional session, same old partisan divisiveness. Not that anyone expected anything less.

But there is one issue that can and should unite the partisan divide: Raising wages for American workers.

Median wages remain below their 1990s levels. Half of 30-year-olds today earn less than their parents did at the same age. That number falls to 41% for men. And poll after poll suggest voters of all stripes want policymakers to relentlessly pursue wage growth and not get sidetracked with divisive social issues that play to the party base.

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