Let's Try To Get Labor Statistics Right For The Labor Day Weekend

Tim Worstall, Contributor, Forbes
Sat, 08/30/2014 - 7:07am

Over at Quartz they tell us that things aren't so rosy on Labor Day. For the portion of the economy that is going to labor has been falling for some years now. This is not how it is supposed to be and they're entirely correct that the labor share of [...]

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