Re: Re: New Democrats, New Economy

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barkley wrote:
> Actually the trend to inequality of both income and wealth has slowed in
> the last few years in the US, despite the continuing increase in the gap
> between rank and file and CEO wages.  Probably the main factor has been
> the lowered unemployment rate that has led to a noticeable decline in the
> poverty rate in the US.

to quote Chairperson Doug on this issue, from the most recent issue of
LBO: >Not to be too cynical or anything, but it's almost enough to make you
expect an imminent recession, to re-store the natural order of things.<

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine