From FDL, a book salon on Sabotage: How the Republican Party Crippled America’s Economic Recovery by Daniel Altman. Americans want to live in a much more equal country (they just don't realize it). The withering of the affluent society: Though Americans see upward mobility as their birthright, that assumption faces growing challenges, with consequences not just for the size of our wallets but for the tenor of our politics. A review of The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor: Birth of a New Workers’ Movement or Death Throes of the Old? by Steve Early. The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials aren't buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy. Did Barack Obama save Ohio? Why the battle to take credit for Ohio’s ever-so-slightly above-average economy could swing the presidential election. Larry Hanley, the national leader of one of America’s feistiest unions, is aiming to expand the economic fairness debate — he’s proposing a cap on incomes at the top that rises only if incomes at the bottom rise first. How to get to full employment despite the political constraints: A review of Back to Full Employment by Robert Pollin.
