This Labor Day, numbers tell why we must dump Trump
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By Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik

Workers, their unions, their allies, and all progressive forces have much at stake in the elections that are less than two months away. Not since the Great Depression has there been so much at stake for them and, even before the obvious threat to democracy foisted upon the country by the Trump administration, there are the numbers. Those numbers reflect a life or death battle millions are facing, a battle to keep a roof over their heads and a battle to feed themselves and their families.

Even without considering all of the criminality and corruption we've seen from the Trump administration these past four years, the economic numbers alone are reason enough to replace the Trump-Pence team with the Biden-Harris team.

Officially, there are slightly more than 30 million unemployed people in the nation. The government's declared jobless rate was 10.2% in July. That's the second-highest rate since the Great Depression. Yes, that Great Depression. The highest was in June.

Now add in people who have become discouraged and dropped out of the workforce, the seven million or so jobless even before the depression hit, and millions more in restaurants and hotels whose jobs just plain went up in smoke and are never coming back.

Don't forget those who are not officially counted as jobless because the state unemployment systems don't cover them. They include farm workers, home health care aides, and "independent contractors" such as musicians, actors, adjunct professors, and port truckers....

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