e.g. Many unemployed low wage workers briefly experienced a livable income. Many other workers were promised compensation for working through the pandemic that never came. The US significantly expanded the welfare state and then yanked it away, resulting in spike in poverty, hunger and homelessness.

There's another piece here for someone who had more closely followed the Gaza protests—how the combined city/feds/university repression and punishment of those protests, all that police did with most Democrats' blessing last spring and summer, has shaped what protest looks like now in the US.

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Not sure if they did everything right and got no credit rather than did many things right and benefited from that, and would have benefited more if they had aggressively and publicly countered profiteering and did more to financially assist struggling households.

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It would be helpful to present union wages in cumulative terms relative to inflation and nonunion wages, to emphasize the need to catch up as well as get ahead

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