<![CDATA[New York Times Still Pushing $70-an-hour Autoworker Myth]]>

1.0 link 147569 <![CDATA[New York Times Still Pushing $70-an-hour Autoworker Myth]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/new-york-times-still-push_b_147569.html Like a zombie that can't be killed, the $70-an-hour autoworker lie is alive and well, roaming the media landscape -- and still being peddled by The New York Times in Monday's edition.

As Media Matters and other critics reported last week, it's a conservative myth concocted by totaling all wages, plus health and benefit costs to current workers and 450,000 retirees and their families -- and then deceptively dividing that huge total payout by the number...

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