Recent quotes:

Evening Must-Read: Nick Bunker: The Steep Path Forward for Unionization - Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Increased unionization in the United States would almost certainly reduce wage and income inequality. But the pathway to a higher rate is steep.
#Nick-Bunker #Wage-Inequality #Unionization - equitablegrowth.org

Morning Must-Read: David Howell: Links Between Institutions and Shared Growth - Washington Center for Equitable Growth

If there were a thousand people all anxious to feed their families who had little in the way of alternative job prospects who could demonstrate that they could do my job well–well, then, it would be very difficult for my job to be a “decent” one, would it? It would still be a very interesting job. But it would also be a very low-paying job, unless I could figure out some way to extract a large share of the increasing-returns joint-production common pool and attach it to me in some durable way
#Wage-Inequality #David-Howell #Bargaining - equitablegrowth.org