A few weeks ago, renowned Stanford economist Raj Chetty released a sweeping study of panel data on the “absolute income mobility,” or ability to out-earn the income bracket of one’s parents, of Americans born in the 1940s versus those born in the 1980s. In sum, the...
Over the last thirty years, union membership has decreased in size nearly 50%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2015, the rate of union membership in the United States was 11.1%; compared to the 1983 rate, which stood at 20.1%. To understand the...