US recovery 'not helping workers'


Many working families still feel no benefit from the US economic recovery, the Economic Policy Institute says.

While business is improving, average wages have fallen, job satisfaction has declined and the rich-poor gap widened, says a report by the US think tank.

And in terms of recouping jobs since the start of the recession, the US is in a worse position "than any business cycle since the 1930s", it added.
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-- No Shit. I have run into so many people over the past few months that say that not only are jobs out there crap, but they are so bad that even with this poor economy and no prospect of collecting unemployment benefits that I and my legion of fellow employed/unemployed co-workers would rather depend on our meals from a food bank than work under the conditions we have to work under. No F**king Shit. That is how bad it really and truly is. I would rather face poverty and losing a roof over my head than work for you. And so would many, many others out there across this country and across the world. The gift of a job that corporations and businesses offer is so repulsive we would rather die than take it.