Middle Class Jobs, Income Quickly Disappearing (with some depressingly eye-popping charts)

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18. The last chart is the how AND why of what happened for the past 5 years

I know it sounds tinfoil-hatty, but you have to wonder if the replacement of good paying job with part-time minimum wage jobs was the planned effect allowing corporations irrecoverably GUT us of jobs that were sent overseas during the recession by US companies under the guise of "in this poor economy we have to save money". An astute reader will notice this is exactly the OPPOSITE of what needs to be done for economic recovery.

This personally affected me and a large number of people i worked with in the call center industry when my company (and several others sighting "competitiveness" as their reasoning) shipped moderately well paying management and support positions to the Philippines where they pay LESS THAN $5/hour for jobs that were $35-45K per year in the US. They forced THOUSANDS of people at my company alone out of jobs within months of the crash. I cannot believe this is a coincidence.

There must be a way we can start making these corporations that are destroying our economy for their own profit pay for what they are doing. The law isn't on our side, the people with power and money aren't on our side...so what is there left to do about it?