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Krugman: State of the Unions

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Hardball tactics have been enabled by a political environment that has been deeply hostile to organized labor, both because politicians favored employers? interests and because conservatives sought to weaken the Democratic Party. ?We?re going to crush labor as a political entity,? Grover Norquist, the anti-tax activist, once declared.

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