Tag: Jeff Landry

The Economic Cure That Dare Not Speak Its Name

If you don’t know Gordon Lafer, you should. He’s an associate professor at the University of Oregon,  a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, and in 2009-10 was a Senior Labor Policy Adviser to the House of Representatives. He’s also one of the leading experts in the country on the labor movement and labor politics. I asked him over the weekend to comment on a new report, just out in the American Sociological Review, that’s getting a lot of play in the media.  This is what he had to say. Last week a new report came out showing that economic inequality is largely caused by not enough people having unions.  For a dry statistical study, this one got a […]