Los Angeles Times, September 27, 2011, Tuesday

Los Angeles Times

September 27, 2011, Tuesday

Los Angeles Times (full article)

On the Media: It's time for America to talk class

Even when a reporter or news outlet pursues the story of what economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman calls "the Great Divergence," the working class has no obvious lobbying group or advocate to bring its interests to the fore. Unions once played that role, but they've been in retreat over the same period, notes Jefferson Cowie, a Cornell University historian and author of "Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class."