Is Labor Benefiting From The Union Boom?
Capitalisn't
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What Did Unions Do and What Do They Do Today?
The decline in union coverage accounts for 35 % of the falling share of middle class workers. The entire bottom half of the income distribution tha that has gone down because the unions have basically disappeared. What's interesting, a lot of economists always wanted to say, oh, this is all technological change, and it's all about shifts more educated than less educated. They rarely looked at the institutional features of how were the jobs being determined and making the whole society work for but to what extent?
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