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It has been a bumpy 50 years for blue-collar America. Not only has labour’s share of US national income steadily dropped barring a few brief patches, chiefly the 1990s internet boom, but its life expectancy has also been falling. Having secured the country’s first avowedly pro-union president since Lyndon Johnson, a turning of the corner ought to be in sight. The fact that it is not is less a reflection on Joe Biden than on the biases of the system he heads.