For workers, it's no holiday

THIS LABOR DAY, America's working families do not have a great deal to cheer. According to the new Census report on economic trends in 2006, median earnings for fulltime year-round workers last year fell by about 1 percent, even with a booming economy. (Full article: 763 words)

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