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BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1998
"Wage-and- salary workers employed at home grew to 3.6 million in 1997
from 1.9 million in 1991, the Labor Department said" ("Work Week"
feature, page A1, Wall Street Journal).
The boom is fine -- if you own stock; the millions who don't are only
falling further behind, says the Washington Post (page A1) ....While
Americans are piling into the market in record numbers, the most recent
data suggest that six of every 10 households still do not own stocks --
and thus have reaped no direct benefit from the current boom in share
prices. That troubles many analysts, who warn that the bull market on
Wall Street is aggravating other disturbing economic trends and pushing
wealth and income disparities ....
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