Unions and inequality

Posted: 6 June 2012 in Uncategorized
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The decline in unions doesn’t explain all of the growing inequality in the United States between the mid-1970s and the financial crisis of 2007-08 but it does play an important role, as seen in this chart by Colin Gordon.

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