Tag: workers
Home health aides, nurses, teacher assistants and servers do a lot of lifting or standing for long periods, which takes a toll on their bodies. For a middle-aged waitress, it might be a bad knee. For a baby boomer caring for an elderly person, it might be the strain of lifting a patient out of…
The dramatic increase in U.S. inequality is due almost entirely to the expanding fortunes of the 1 percent. They have tripled their share of the nation’s total wealth to 21 percent since the 1970s. Such extreme concentrations of wealth are of growing concern to economists and even one Wall Street firm. They argue that it…
