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Omaha Steve's Labor Group

Teamster Jeff

(1,598 posts) Thu Sep 20, 2012, 05:54 PM Sep 2012

Study: Higher Unionization Rates Increase Economic Mobility

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In the U.S., economic mobility — the ability of a person to move to a higher income bracket than her parents —
lags behind other industrialized nations.

But according to a Center for American Progress Action Fund analysis of data from the Pew Center on the States, there is something that can help: unionization. As CAPAF’s David Madland and Nick Bunker found, “states with high union membership rates are more likely to have high levels of economic mobility, even after controlling for other factors such as education, income levels, inequality, and unemployment”

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/09/20/884931/unions-increase-economic-mobility/