Labor Day reality: Government undermining value of everyday work

Labor Day reality: Government undermining value of everyday work

This is a column by Kyle Wingfield, president and CEO of the Libertarian-leaning Georgia Public Policy Foundation .

As we check off another Labor Day , it’s fair to ask if it really is just another Labor Day.

The holiday honoring workers stems from the Industrial Revolution, when working conditions in America’s burgeoning assortment of factories, mills and mines came to be intolerable for those who toiled there. America’s elites, it seemed, valued the work more than the workers.Nowadays, it appears to be the other way around. More on labor force: Savannah Ironworkers seek to fill looming skilled labor shortage […]

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