according to freetheslaves.net slave holders use terms such as bonded labor and attached labor to avoid use of the word slave. we ll be back with a garment worker who was enslavd while working in this country. the best potatoes? idaho. idaho! idaho. and how do you know you re getting idaho potatoes? well.uh. uhm. heh.. (sighs) not all potatoes come from idaho. so if you want the best, you have to do one important thing. always look for the grown in idaho seal. i knew that. i knew that. look for the grown in idaho seal.
income growth in the united states went to the top 1% of americans. meanwhile the bottom 50% of income earners own less than 1% of the country s wealth. one of the major reasons for the growing gap is corporations outsourcing jobs to foreign labor markets who will work for pennies on the dollar. in china, a garment worker makes 86 cents an hour. you want to work for that? in cambodia it s 22 cents an hour. compare that to the u.s. federal minimum wage of 7.25 an hour. that is what american workers are up against in bad trade agreements, and it s killing the middle class. this is exactly why i wrote my book, piller politics, how big money and bad politics are destroying the great american middle class. for more let me bring in joan walsh, editor-in-chief of salon.com. what party, what political movement, joan, is going to appeal to the people that have been suffering? you know, i would hope that it would be the democrats and it traditionally has been the democrats, but, you know, ob