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Bailing Out Detroit

Lawyers, Guns and Money found this 12/10/2008 on motherjones.com

BAILING OUT DETROIT.... David Leonhardt uses this graphic in the New York Times today to illustrate the labor costs of the Big Three auto makers vs. the Japanese companies who manufacture cars in nonunion plants. As he says, the $70+ per hour figure that gets tossed around so often is badly ...