Not all that long ago,
America's prominent business and government leaders widely believed that our
nation's prosperity depended on a strong middle class growing from the bottom
up. Workers were rewarded for their hard work with fair wages, benefits and advancement
opportunities -- and our economy and our national security were much stronger
for it.
Henry Ford certainly knew this, and often said that his company would prosper
only if his workers earned enough to buy the Fords they produced. And in 1953,
when General…
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