It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.

Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back.

We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.

A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.

The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people.

There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.