More Jobs Are the Antidote to Inequality
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Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Forget about the best books of 2013.As an early Christmas gift, I’m going to tell you how to get oneof the most important books of 2014 -- for free. It’s “GettingBack to Full Employment: A Better Bargain for Working People,”by Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein. You can download it -- at nocharge -- here. Ho ho ho!
The book claims to be about jobs. In truth, it’s about aneven more important subject: power. In particular, it’s aboutthe economic power of ordinary workers -- how they lost it, andhow they can regain it.