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PA AFL-CIO chief, Erie native Ferritto: what Pa. workers have to celebrate this Labor Day

By Angela Ferritto


As Keystone Research Center reports in The State of Working Pennsylvania 2024, and highlighted by the Economist magazine, the wages of a typical Pennsylvania worker now top those of a typical U.S. worker by about one dollar per hour, the same as the situation in 1979. Pennsylvania has made good progress recently rebuilding its once robust middle class.

Other economic indicators also make clear that today's economy is delivering for Pennsylvania workers in a way that we haven't seen in 50 years.


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