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Working-Class Fraud by Timothy Egan

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"With Trump, you can be sure of one thing: He will betray the people. “Trump isn’t interested in solving the problems he yells about and swears about. He delivers punch lines.”Yet people are being fooled. Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss. He fooled the folks in Maryland, a state he’s unlikely to see again in the general election." We know this because he already has. Wage stagnation is the most glaring symptom of a declining middle class. Trump’s solution?" He believes that “wages are too high." "Would he support raising the pathetic federal minimum wage, from the current $7.25 an hour? No. Higher wages make it hard for the United States to compete, and will not let theabout the maids, bartenders and food servers at his five-star hotel in Las Vegas to join a union, which could raise their pay an additional $3 an hour.  Trump, the working class zero, is sticking it to them." 

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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