Because social activists created organizations and movements determined to make improvements in the lives of the working poor. He got better wages, better health care, better social benefits. Then, with the triumph of Reaganomics and the conservative backlash against the sixties, the rich started to take it all back. Since then, there has been a steady erosion of government programs that benefit the poor and the middle class, and a steady increase in the proportion of wealth in this country that is held by a small percentage of the very rich. I am not exaggerating.
Lawyers win huge settlements and take in millions for themselves.
It's time for the pendulum to swing back towards the middle. Increase the minimum wage, strengthen the unions, cut military spending, put more money into the schools, reduce tuition costs for colleges and universities, and put some money into redevelopment of inner city cores, state and provincial high ways, and urban greenbelts. All rights reserved.