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The true question is this: labor cannot be a law without being a right.

真正的问题是：劳动如果不成为权利，就不可能成为一种法制。

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That is no longer true today. We are a very different economy and a much weaker labor movement.

然而事到如今这种盛况却已是时过境迁了，我们今天的经济完全不同，劳工运动的势力也大不如前了。

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America's true unemployment rate may, in fact,be higher than the number provided by the Labor Department, which does not include people who searched for work in vain and have given up, or those who settled for part-time work.

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This helps fuel true labor mobility in the U.S. Not only are individuals willing to move within the U.S. to seek economic opportunity, but they also share a common language and cultural context.

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Indirectly, the same is true in the labor markets: long-term unemployment benefits can be seen as an attempt to put off adjustments of wage levels.

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Several months ago though, with the recall of state senators, and the defeat of a referendum in Ohio, it seemed like just the opposite was true and that organized labor was back due to Republican overreached.

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