Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120429:12:15:00
Because if you look at the core of what a vision of a healthier democracy would be, i think some kind of inconstitutional power for working people as a counterveiling force, to the interest you talked about. just to set things up, here's a chart and this shows the relationship, which is incredibly profound between essentially union density and the middle class share of aggregate income. you've seen those two lines decline in tandem. this is one of the big stories of the political economy of america in the sort of era of inequality. which is basically from 1970 on. a certain kind of income ineq...