2015
> ... when I teach #IntroductoryPolitics..I must explain.. how a bill does not become a law...
> ... the lovely conviction that #EconomicGrowth in itself will boost the fortunes[of all].. But since the middle 1970s real wages have flattened or even declined for roughly 60%.. Trends of this kind are intensifying. Since the economic crash of 2008, 95% of the #IncomeGains in the #USA during the so-called “recovery” have gone to the top 1%.
https://www.langdonwinner.com/other-writings/2015/02/facing-plague-economic-and-political.html
#LangdonWinner #Wealth
> ... when I teach #IntroductoryPolitics..I must explain.. how a bill does not become a law...
> ... the lovely conviction that #EconomicGrowth in itself will boost the fortunes[of all].. But since the middle 1970s real wages have flattened or even declined for roughly 60%.. Trends of this kind are intensifying. Since the economic crash of 2008, 95% of the #IncomeGains in the #USA during the so-called “recovery” have gone to the top 1%.
https://www.langdonwinner.com/other-writings/2015/02/facing-plague-economic-and-political.html
#LangdonWinner #Wealth
Facing the Plague: Economic and Political Inequality — Langdon Winner
Hopes for the future of democracy must now confront a basic power shift that has emerged since the early 1970s and is now reaching its advanced stages. This shift in control over key decisions and policies is clearly visible in my own country, the U.S.A., but is evident in many other nati