A major point of the article is that living standards have been lowered for an entire class of US workers, and that a new underclass is being created.
Few remain that would dispute that.
Actually, none, to my knowledge . . . since your argument is a strawman.
Well, there was that one article that Rush mentions now and then about that writer who claimed that being unemployed was giving people free time to have "fun," or some such nonsense. But I know that's not what you are talking about . . . .