share of black workers in a “good job” – one that pays at least $19 per hour (in inflation-adjusted 2011 dollars), has …

, before the Great Recession began, and 2010, the low point for the labor market. The deterioration in the economy's ability to …

, especially those at the middle and the bottom of the pay scale. The restructuring of the U.S. labor market – including the … decline in the inflation-adjusted value of the minimum wage, the fall in unionization, privatization, deregulation, pro … unemployment well above the full employment level – has substantially reduced the bargaining power of U.S. workers, effectively …