Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign moved beyond the 1963 March on Washington, where the emphasis was on equality in civil rights. In the years to come, his focus broadened to include economic and job equality.
On this Labor Day, let's take a moment out of the 50th anniversary commemoration of that March and the Voting Rights Act to think about economic equality.
As we've been told over and over, the disparity between rich and poor has grown enormously in the past decade -- and it gets worse each year.
These two thread were linked in some telling statistics:
The minimum wage, when adjusted for inflation, has actually declined in the 50th year since that 1963 March on Washington. At the same time, the concentration of wealth in the top 1% has grown obscenely.
Ralph
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