Headline Roundup • September 5th, 2016
Labor Day 2016
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Washington Times
Today’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.
USA TODAY
Americans are taking less vacation and more work home. Some are even working this Labor Day.
HuffPost
As 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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