AFL-CIO: Young Workers In U.S. Much Worse Off Than Ten Years Ago

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/11862

By Doug Cunningham

An AFL-CIO survey of young workers finds they are much worse off economically than they were a decade ago. AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Rich Trumka.

: “We found that young workers are significantly less likely to have health care and economic security than they were yen years ago. We owe them better. The country owes them better. And unless we change it their economic standards are gonna define a very new norm, a norm of lower job and living standards in this country.”

One-third of young workers live in their parents’ homes for economic reasons. Trumka, who will become President of the AFL-CIO in a couple of weeks, says the labor federation will be reaching out to young workers. He says their economic future is the nation’s economic future and we must build an economy that works for everyone.