Friday's Wall Street Journal featured an article headlined "Measuring the Human Cost of an iPad Made in China," and what followed is a distressingly good example of the dangers of reporting the world from the perspective of revenue-maximizing alone.
The death toll at electronics giant Foxconn rose to 14 today as a worker jumped from Foxconn's Shenzhen manufacturing complex in Southern China. The company manufactures Apple's iPhone and iPad and electronics for other technology titans.
In American public life, it's hard to escape popular appeals about the virtues of the middle class. Yet a growing cadre of analysts are concerned about the steady erosion of the middle class and the industrial base that created it.