Labor Day 2016
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From the Right
OPINION: A new kind of Labor DayToday’s holiday is the 122nd anniversary of the first national Labor Day, a date that in 1894 union workers thought would long be a rallying time for blue-collar labor against management — much in the fashion of the May Day associated with Marxism.
From the Left
Labor Day by the numbers: Americans can’t stop, won’t stop workingAmericans are taking less vacation and more work home. Some are even working this Labor Day.
From the Left
This Labor Day: Think BigAs we mark Labor Day, the same dismal long-term job-patterns persist. The economy is nominally in a recovery, but far too many jobs are insecure and fail to offer a middle class standard of living. Whether the Federal Reserve makes things worse by raising rates, or continues its policy of low interest rates, nothing on the near horizon offers hope of significant change.
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