They worked out great. Michigan sucked after they left. America shouldn't have let them leave. And Toyota/Honda workers down south should organize.
The corporations won. And they didn't send their jobs to the dirty south where unions don't exist. Why not? Why did they bypass you and go to Mexico? I'd be ok if they moved to Kentucky not Chiwawa.
In rich countries, the middle class is getting smaller and smaller, generation by generation
Across Western Europe and North America, the middle class is shrinking. With each new generation, a smaller share of the population find themselves earning middle incomes.
When the Baby Boomers were in their twenties, some 68% were in middle-income households. Only 60% of Millennials can say the same at a similar time in their lives.
middle incomes have increased by just 0.3% per year, on average, over the past decade. That's true in red states too. Unions brought wages up. No unions, no wage increases. NO coincidence.
The gradual hollowing out of the middle class is a complicated story. For example, in the US,
the Pew Research Center found that Americaās shrinking middle class is the result of some people slipping into
lower income classes, but an even larger share of the population rising into the upper classes. However, these figures disguise intergenerational inequality. Research led by Harvardās Raj Chetty has shown that
social mobility is declining, as fewer children
earn more than their parents.
Indeed, for each new generation in the OECDās aggregate average, the middle class is getting smaller, the upper class is stable, and the lower class is expanding.
traditional middle-class jobs are threatened by automation, and it now takes more skills and more earners for a household to make it into the middle class. āThe middle class used to be an aspiration. For many generations it meant the assurance of living in a comfortable house and affording a rewarding lifestyle,ā the OECD said. āHowever, there are now signs that this bedrock of our democracies and economic growth is not as stable as in the past.ā
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