"(I had to go and investigate what the Economic Policy Institute was. Apparently it's funded by a consortium of labor unions. Odd that they would bother about t

"(I had to go and investigate what the Economic Policy Institute was. Apparently it's funded by a consortium of labor unions. Odd that they would bother about this, since few to none of the jobs involved are union jobs.)" Labor unions are trying to prolong their existence by moving upstream into hi-tech jobs, since their traditional base is disappearing. This is part of a long term strategy to unionize programmers, engineers, scientists, etc. It's really sad to compare the good unions did in the US in the early 20th century to their raison d'etre today.