Billionaire investor Warren Buffett says he’s sick and tired of presidential candidates making bleak statements about the U.S. economy, according to The Hill, a Washington politico newspaper.
In 2012, the union membership rate--the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of a union--was 11.3 percent, down from 11.8 percent in 2011, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on January 23. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.4 million, also declined over the year.
A majority of adults nationwide continues to believe that those who work for the government have it easier than those in the private sector and get paid more for it.
