sentence1: In other words, the main victims of (to use another of Reich's phrases) the new economy are not the few thousand managers who have become hamburger flippers but the tens of millions of hamburger flippers, janitors, and so on whose real wages have been declining 1or 2 percent per year for the last two decades.
sentence2: Reich felt those who were really hurt were the many fast food workers who suffered a decline in pay for years.