The Betrayal of Public Workers

Robert Pollin and Jeffrey Thompson, The Nation: "The Great Recession and its aftermath are entering a new phase in the United States, which could bring even more severe assaults on the living standards and basic rights of ordinary people than we have experienced thus far.

This is because a wide swath of the country’s policy – – and opinion-making elite have singled out public sector workers – – including schoolteachers, healthcare workers, police officers and firefighters – – as well as their unions and even their pensions as deadweight burdens sapping the economy’s vitality".