“For all their shortcomings, unions midwifed the
birth of the middle class in the United States. The period of greatest union
strength from the late 1940s through the 1950s was the time when economic
growth was particularly robust and broadly shared. Most studies find that at
least one-fifth of the rise in income inequality in the United States is
attributable to the decline of labor unions.
“Unions were also a formidable political force, and
it’s perhaps not a surprise that their enfeebling has been accompanied by a
rise in far-right policies that subsidize the wealthy, punish the working poor
and exacerbate the income gap.”— Nicholas Kristof, “Trump’s War on Workers,” The
New York Times, Aug. 11, 2019
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