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Robert Kuttner

Robert Kuttner: Saving the Middle Class

Co-founder and co-editor, 'The American Prospect'

The same diligent workers who earned decent wages a couple of generations ago are now working just as hard for a lot less. The fact is, American productivity has nearly doubled in a generation. The problem is that the fruits of that productivity have gone to the wrong people. Money that might have gone to wage-earners has gone to the top one percent, and to the top one-hundredth of one percent. It is hard to swallow the idea that today's one percent has higher skills and somehow earned these astronomical rewards. So the question is: how do we make sure that more of society's total product goes to ordinary workers and not so much of it to the one percent?

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