From the Current Population Survey via CEPR: Unionization Rate by State. see here.
The 11 lowest union rate states average 6% while the 11 highest union rate states average 20%.... that's a 3.4: 1 ratio... a big difference.
But most notably, the 11 lowest union states are almost exclusively ...
Over the past month I've been looking for economics studies that relate unemployment rates to increasing rates of productivity growth. I have found no economic academic studies yet that use an economics model or models to show the relationship. The best I've found thus far is Race Against the Machine, published ~...
... download the e-book from Amazon, Race Against the Machine,published only two weeks ago or so. It's only $4 and a fast, easy read. Very enlightening about rate of change acceleration. P.S. it was only pubished as e-book version, so I can't loan it to you in that form that I'm aware of, otherwise I would.
If you didn't see this article (link provided by Krugman blog), it discusses the issue related to the rate of productivity improvement and consequent employment reductions.... a theme I've been writing about intermittantly for awhile now.
What I don't see extensively analyzed yet ...
... has killed the party that used to represent the middle class ...i.e. the non-capitalists.
It must indeed be considered one of the greatest master moves by the capitalist owners association in the beginning via Reagan as their spokesman, puppet, and implementer: "Government is the problem, not the solution" .
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If you haven't become very worried yet, or you've taken after Alfred E. Newman attitude ("What, me worry?"), its time to start worrying in earnest since you're getting a preview of how much & how dramatically things will change.
Current GOP legislation in the GOP dominated House is just a little ...
Krugman's "getting his facts line up" before commenting, so I thought I'd weigh in with my thoughts on it now.
The issue is collective bargaining by public employees.... teachers unions, police, firefighters, gov't office workers unions, state highway mainteance unions, etc... .people employed by a gov't ...