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    After Democrats lost the working class, union leaders say it’s time to ‘reconstruct the Democratic Party’

    November 18, 2024 // “We can’t communicate with every nonunion laborer. We can only communicate with a portion of our members,” said Booker, who thinks Democrats could have performed better with a fierier populist message on the economy and a cooler one on cultural issues that make some of his members feel like Democrats are out-of-touch elitists. “A lot of our members own guns. A lot of our members hunt.” Booker said that when he toured job sites this year, he heard about inflation, immigration and the demise of the Keystone Pipeline, which would have created jobs for his members but was killed for environmental concerns — all issues that played to the GOP’s favor.

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    Measuring the Salary Value of Education and Work Experience in Massachusetts

    March 14, 2022 // A Regression-Model Study of Salaries in New-Hire Job Postings

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