The Myth of American Productivity
In 1939, when John Steinbeck completed The Grapes of Wrath—a heart-wrenching tale of a family of sharecroppers forced out of their home during the Depression— roughly one-quarter of the U.S. population still lived on farms. Today, family farms are increasingly rare, and less than 2 percent of employed Americans work in agriculture. But rather than [...]img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EconomicCrisisInUs/~4/CMYW5e-pcnY” height=”1″ width=”1″/