Salvatore Babones: Inequality and Growth
The inequality and growth debate is a red herring. It just doesn’t matter. The problem is inequality, and its solution is simple.
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Salvatore Babones: Women’s Wages Can No Longer Rescue the American Family
For the past forty years American men’s incomes have stagnated, but women’s wages have risen. Unfortunately, the years of catch-up are now over. We need policies to raise wages for everyone.
Salvatore Babones: Gun-Toting Vigilante Lunatics versus Tree-Hugging Bleeding Hearts
If only the three big forces of American politics would faithfully serve their constituents, the 2012 election could be about real choice. Instead we have Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama.
Salvatore Babones: Why Have Levels of Income Inequality Risen So Much?
The fact that the average American household today has an income of $50,000 instead of $100,000 can be attributed entirely to the fact that inequality has risen over the past four decades instead of declining.
Salvatore Babones: The Problem Isn’t Growth — The Problem Is Inequality
The US economy has been growing since July 2009. So why aren’t things improving in the US realonomy?
Salvatore Babones: Making the Payroll Tax Cut Revenue-Neutral
All workers should pay Social Security taxes, including those with six, seven, and eight figure incomes.
Salvatore Babones: British and Greek Workers Strike for All of Us
Government workers are standing against a wave of austerity that threatens to swamp us all.
Salvatore Babones: Centralized Labor Agreements in Finland: How Unions, Companies, and Government Can Work Together for a Better Society
Here in the United States, corporations treat their workers as adversaries. Not so in Finland.
Salvatore Babones: Aviation Union Busting at Qantas
Americans have long experience of companies cutting benefits, cutting wages, and trying to prevent workers from joining unions. Few workers in America have been hit harder than aviation workers.
The Unfair Distribution of Workplace Rewards
The private sector’s declining union presence, two top sociologists contend, explains a major chunk of America’s growing wage inequality. In 1973, over a third of all private sector workers belonged to unions. Today’s rate. Less than a tenth of private sector workers carry union cards.