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applegrove

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Tue Sep 2, 2014, 11:57 PM Sep 2014

While union membership declines, those at the top are making out like bandits

While union membership declines, those at the top are making out like bandits

by Laura Clawson for Daily Kos Labor

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/02/1326532/-While-union-membership-declines-those-at-the-top-are-making-out-like-bandits

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Here's another angle on the side-by-side decline of union membership and the middle-class share of the national income: union membership and the income share going to the top.

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However you look at it, union membership is going down and inequality is going up, and multiple studies have found that those two things are related. And it's costing the middle class.


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While union membership declines, those at the top are making out like bandits (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2014 OP
It's, "self sabatoge" n/t jaysunb Sep 2014 #1
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