The liberal wonks at the Economic Policy Institute are having a moment right now. They’ve been warning for years that middle-class wages were stagnating. Suddenly, as they put it in a new paper out today, “There is now widespread agreement across the political spectrum that wage stagnation is the country’s key economic challenge.” They’ve long called the decline in unionization the biggest factor in that stagnation; Democrats are increasingly embracing that argument.
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