"This Labor Day marks a rough year for the Obama administration and the labor union movement that had high hopes for him," says Brad Knickerbocker in The Christian Science Monitor. With 9.1 percent of the nation's labor force desperately seeking work, what can we take away from this national holiday? Here, a roundup of what editorial boards at newspapers around the country are highlighting this weekend:
Chicago Sun-Times: "The government can't end unemployment alone. But it should be building roads, repairing bridges -- our infrastructure screams for improvement and our economy will erode even more without it. Why is financial recovery only thought to trickle down, from the crumbs that supposedly fall off rich people's plates, and not up, from a collapsing bridge being replaced?"
Chicago Sun-Times: "The government can't end unemployment alone. But it should be building roads, repairing bridges -- our infrastructure screams for improvement and our economy will erode even more without it. Why is financial recovery only thought to trickle down, from the crumbs that supposedly fall off rich people's plates, and not up, from a collapsing bridge being replaced?"
