The New York Times: What The Rich Don’t Want to Admit About The Poor

The New York Times, June 13, 2021, What The Rich Don’t Want to Admit About The Poor

The American economy runs on poverty, or at least the constant threat of it. Americans like their goods cheap and their services plentiful and the two of them, together, require a sprawling labor force willing to work tough jobs at crummy wages. On the right, the barest glimmer of worker power is treated as a policy emergency, and the whip of poverty, not the lure of higher wages, is the appropriate response.