Leaving aside his characterization of sub-Saharan Africans as less than productive, the economics professor who bumped the House Majority Leader from his post proves himself economically illiterate.
Harold Meyerson
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Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Agreement: Collective Bargaining Reborn?
If Seattle’s agreement sticks, SEIU’s David Rolf and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray can claim credit for devising a form of collective bargaining that benefits workers with no ties whatever to unions.
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Who’s Got the Political Will to Save the Middle Class?
The changes that are necessary to arrest this decline are so fundamental that they virtually require a new political order.
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We Hate Obamacare (But Like What It Does)
On the Affordable Care Act, conservatives exhibit the paradox of American public opinion: They oppose big government, but support its actual programs.
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Cuomo’s Wedge
How New York’s Democratic governor has estranged New York’s Democratic voters
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The Death of an Employer Scam
The government cracks down on employers who pretend their workers aren’t really employees.
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How to Raise Americans’ Wages
Eight proposals to jump-start the incomes of workers
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Chattanooga Showdown
If workers vote to join a union at Volkswagen’s Tennessee plant this week, they’ll be changing America’s labor relations for the better
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Investing in Stock Buybacks, Not People
U.S. corporations want to sit on their cash. If they won’t use it, why can’t we?
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Raising the Minimum is the Bare Minimum
What America needs is to shift income from capital to labor.