Jobs and Wages

“L.A. County Jobs Surge Since ‘93, but Not Wages” (July 26) blows the smoke screen on the “booming economy.” While corporate America with its multimillionaire CEOs reaps huge profits, very little has trickled to the average working person. As the high-paying jobs have left to offshore companies, American workers have been marginalized. Altering time cards by supervisors is all too common, as well as reclassifying once full-time employees as temps, part-time or “independent contractors.”

If the jobs that created our middle class are not reinvented, America will have a two-tier economy, one of a super-rich, lavish upper class and the rest of us--racing to the lowest end of the wage scale.

JOHN CONNER

Maywood