Opinion | In a Single Year, $1.78 Trillion Was Stolen From the Working Class

'It's time for unions to invest much more in new worker organizing—and harness the power of an active, engaged and militant membership.'

of the proposed $1.75 trillion in spending going to child care, preschool, affordable housing, higher education and healthcare.

In the chart, the line tracking productivity soars while the line tracking wages stagnates. As the two diverge, income inequality increases. So companies have been paying employees an increasingly smaller share of the value their labor produces, which is another way of seeing what the productivity-wage gap already showed us. But there are many things corporations can do with profits, and they usually don't hoard the money in corporate bank accounts.

Here's the productivity and worker-pay chart from EPI again, but with annual corporate dividends added:

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