Earlier. He called them the turbulent years. The years that gave rise to the cio and all of the organizing and mieverything we saw then. They werent years of upheaval, organization and progress so much as a big turnabout. A way in which the american working class suddenly took a turn to a different stage in its existence where we could say that from the 30s to the 70s was an experience of almost unbroken progress and expanding rights for workers. But in the years between 1968 and 1988, a lot of that turned around. So turnabout years. I want to start with three stories that help locate whats going on in this period. Then talk a bit about whats happening to the economy. Talk about Public Sector workers in the period and the physical austerity they faced and conclude with barometers of whats happening to working class america by the end of this period. So to begin, let me start with three stories. Im going to locate these in 1977. So roughly about halfway into the period that were talking
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Makes me gassy. Its the late show with stephen colbert. Tonights top story, trump takes on north korea. Plus midnight confessions, with Hillary Clinton. And stephen welcomes Bobby Moynihan and tatiana maslany, featuring jon batiste and stay human. E onape fr the , it s ltephanen civolbe w,d no cheers and applause stephen hey, everybody please have a seat. Youre very kind. Thank you so much. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, stephen colbert. cheers and applause it is as you can tell by this crowd, it is friday. cheers jon its a friday crowd. Stephen thats a friday reaction right there. Of course, if youve been in new york city, you know that the u. N. Has been in town alleek. Diomats from eve nation on this planet have gathered in new york to spread their message of, we can park anywhere we want. Hopeful. applause and the highlight was trumps big speech, where he threatened to totally destroy north that didnt go over big with north korea who fired back. Earlier this week, their fo
here is a live look at philadelphia. Big changes are coming. Lets look at radar. See the green band there off to the left . It looks like its past east of cincinnati . That system is going to bring rain to our area. Nbc 10 first alert meteorologist Brittney Shipp is tracking the system that could affect our weekend plans. Right . Its going to affect weekend plans as we head into saturday. Keep that in mind. A closer look at headlines. Cloudy conditions today. A rainy start to your weekend. A rainy saturday morning. And then cooler temperatures in store for us as we head into sunday. Our right now conditions at 68. A mix of sun and clouds. Humidity at 70 . Wind at 11 miles per hour. Satellite radar shot knows clouds throughout most of our area, in allentown, philadelphia and right along the shore. We are going to look to the west. This system will bring us rain as we head into your overnight hours tonight. Dont expect any rainfall until after midnight. Lingering as we head into the r