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Rigging the Rules to Take Away Our Freedoms

Rigging the Rules to Take Away Our Freedoms. The Impacts of the Rich and Powerful’s Decades Long Attacks on Working People and their Unions. The Ongoing Assault. Their goal is for workers to be poor, powerless, and silent so they can take the wealth we create for themselves.

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Rigging the Rules to Take Away Our Freedoms

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  1. Rigging the Rules to Take Away Our Freedoms The Impacts of the Rich and Powerful’s Decades Long Attacks on Working People and their Unions

  2. The Ongoing Assault Their goal is for workers to be poor, powerless, and silent so they can take the wealth we create for themselves

  3. Union Density and Right to Work Right to Work

  4. The Result: Weaker Unions Mean We’re All Worse Off National Impacts

  5. Compensation and Productivity

  6. The Decline of Union Density and the Rising Gap Between Wages and Productivity

  7. The Share of Income Among The Top 10 Percent Has Grown With Union Decline

  8. Declining Union Density Affects Wages For All Workers Source: Adapted from Figure C in Jake Rosenfeld, Patrick Denice, and Jennifer Laird, Union decline lowers wages of nonunion workers, Economic Policy Institute Report, August 30, 2016

  9. The Rich Get Much Richer and the Rest of Us Stand Still

  10. More Inequality Means Less Growth: US Growth Rate was 5 Percentage Points Less from 1990-2010 Because of the Growth in Inequality That Occurred From 1985 to 2005 Drag of inequality on US growth

  11. Less Union Density Means Less Upward Mobility

  12. The Result: Weaker Unions Mean We’re All Worse Off State Impacts

  13. Economic Well-Being Declines with Union Density

  14. Personal Well-Being Declines with Union Density

  15. Democracy Declines with Union Density

  16. Conclusions

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