What unions did for America. We should miss them.
We forgot how generations of union activists helped create the middle class. Let’s learn from them.
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Causes of rising income inequality, makers of a New America
While the news media fills the air with flotsam and jetsam, powerful forces reshape America. Chief among them is rising income inequality. Like so much happening to us, it results from rational policies skillfully executed by our rulers for their benefit, not ours.
Unions die. America runs out of fuel.
The 1%’s big success has been crushing unions, one of the strongest forces building a large middle class in America. But greed is a dangerous master.
Remember the union workers who bled to create America
Summary: We regard a prosperous middle class as our just due. In fact generations of union activists played a larger role in creating it. It existed for only a few generations, and survived the crushing of unions by a few decades. On Labor Day let’s remember the lost history of the union movement, and learn …
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The battle of institutions vs. technology = rising wage inequality
Summary: Although denied for years, by now rising inequality is acknowledge even by conservatives — so the debate shifts to its causes and remedies. The “standard” answer points to the “invisible hand” of “market forces”. New cutting edge research shows that this defense, much like the earlier denials, does not match the facts. This post …
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