Episode description

Labor Day - unions and middle class income decline, and you don't make as much as your parents did at your age (haha losers, (I'm kidding, it's a joke. You're not a loser)) and first Labor Day Parade in 1882. 

The U.S. union membership rate and the middle class income chart 

The decline upward mobility chart (showing how you don't make as much as your parents did when they were your age)

The article from the New York Times 1882