wages

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  4/4/2022
  

  Your House Makes More Money than You Do

  Rising real estate values are bringing more wealth to Americans than wages and salaries are. This is a big problem for economic equality.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/7/2022
  

  The Economy is Good, Actually

  by Zachary D. Carter

  An economic historian says that the recovery from the pandemic is historically good in terms of the share of gains going to low-income workers, but the politics are not working in the Democrats' favor. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/3/2021
  

  The Filibuster is an Anti-Worker Rule, Too

  by Emily DiVito and Suzanne Kahn

  Since 1948, the filibuster has blocked three major labor reform bills affecting "right to work" laws, streamlining the union recognition process, and protecting workers from retaliation during labor disputes. Eliminating it is critical for economic justice. 

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• SOURCE: Talking Points Memo
  3/8/2021
  

  A Living Wage Should Be A Constitutional Right

  by John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco

  "It is time we invert John F. Kennedy’s famous dictum (“Ask not what your country can do for you …”) and ask what can the country do for us?"

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6/29/2020
  

  The Surprising Cross-Racial Saga of Modern Wealth Inequality

  by Adolph Reed Jr.

  A political scientist argues that the black-white wealth gap is mostly a product of four decades of income gains accruing to the highest earners; accordingly a broad economic justice program is the best way to close the wealth gap. 

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• 8/25/19
  

  Trump Has Blocked Wage Gains for American Workers

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Although the pundits say the U.S. economy is booming―and it certainly is for the country’s billionaires―it’s not doing much for the incomes of American workers. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  8/22/19
  

  It Takes Black Women in the U.S. 20 Months to Earn What White Men Make in a Year. Here's the History Behind That Wage Gap

  by Andrea Flynn

  In order to understand the present day race and gender wage gaps we must first look to slavery and the Jim Crow era that followed. 

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• 4/14/19
  

  Teacher Pay, Presidential Politics, and New York’s Modest Proposal of 1818

  by Adam Laats

  When underpaid teachers threaten to walk away, school leaders have always considered desperate plans to fix desperate financial problems.