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[1] Ibid.

[1] “Automation and anxiety — The impact on jobs”, The Economist, June 25, 2016. https://www.economist.com/special-report/2016/06/25/automation-and-anxiety.

[1] David Weil, “How to Make Employment Fair in an Age of Contracting and Temp Work,” Harvard Business Review, March 24, 2017. https://hbr.org/2017/03/making-employment-a-fair-deal-in-the-age-of-contracting-subcontracting-and-temp-work.

[1] Ibid.

[1] Jay Shambaugh, Patrick Liu, and Greg Nantz, “Thirteen facts about wage growth”, Brookings Institution, September 25, 2017, https://www.brookings.edu/research/thirteen-facts-about-wage-growth/.

[1] “The Productivity–Pay Gap”, Economic Policy Institute, October 2017, https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/.

[1] Jay Shambaugh, Patrick Liu, and Greg Nantz, “Thirteen facts about wage growth”, Brookings Institution, September 25, 2017, https://www.brookings.edu/research/thirteen-facts-about-wage-growth/.

[1] https://justcapital.com/reports/the-just-capital-rankings-on-corporate-tax-reform/

[1] Ibid.

[1] Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman, “Economic growth in the United States: A tale of two countries”, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, https://equitablegrowth.org/economic-growth-in-the-united-states-a-tale-of-two-countries/.

[1] Hanna Fingerhut, “More Americans view long-term decline in union membership negatively than positively”, Pew Research Center, June 5, 2018, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/06/05/more-americans-view-long-term-decline-in-union-membership-negatively-than-positively/.

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[1] Colin Gordon, “Union decline and rising inequality in two charts”, Economic Policy Institute, June 5, 2012, https://www.epi.org/blog/union-decline-rising-inequality-charts/.

[1] Matthew Walters and Lawrence Mishel, “How unions help all workers”, Economic Policy Institute, August 26, 2003, https://www.epi.org/publication/briefingpapers_bp143/.

[1] United States of America. U.S. House of Representatives. Democratic Staff of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Stronger Together: How Unions Help Strengthen Families and the Nation. 13. https://democrats-edworkforce.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Stronger%20Together%20E&L%20Dems%20Report2.pdf.

[1] Matthew Walters and Lawrence Mishel, “How unions help all workers”, Economic Policy Institute, August 26, 2003, https://www.epi.org/publication/briefingpapers_bp143/.

[1] Ibid.

[1] United States of America. U.S. House of Representatives. Democratic Staff of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Stronger Together: How Unions Help Strengthen Families and the Nation. 19. https://democrats-edworkforce.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Stronger%20Together%20E&L%20Dems%20Report2.pdf.

[1] Josh Bivens, Lora Engdahl, Elise Gould, Teresa Kroeger, Celine McNicholas, Lawrence Mishel, Zane Mokhiber, Heidi Shierholz, Marni von Wilpert, Valerie Wilson, and Ben Zipperer, “How today’s unions help working people”, Economic Policy Institute, August 24, 2017, https://www.epi.org/publication/how-todays-unions-help-working-people-giving-workers-the-power-to-improve-their-jobs-and-unrig-the-economy/.

[1] https://illinoisepi.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/ilepi-pmcr-after-janus-final.pdf

[1] “The Productivity–Pay Gap”, Economic Policy Institute, October 2017, https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/.

[1] Alastair Fitzpayne and Ethan Pollock, “Worker Training Tax Credit: Promoting Employer Investments in the Workforce”, The Aspen Institute, May 12, 2017, https://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/worker-training-tax-credit-promoting-greater-employer-investments-in-the-workforce/.

[1] Niall McCarthy, “Costco Named America’s Best Employer 2017”, Forbes, May 10, 2017, https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/05/10/costco-named-americas-best-employer-2017-infographic/#18842aa46022.

[1]Reuters Staff, “Costco’s profit boosted by higher membership fees, strong U.S. sales”, Reuters, May 25, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-costco-wholesale-results/costcos-profit-boosted-by-higher-membership-fees-strong-u-s-sales-idUSKBN18L2QR.

[1] “Cost of 2016 Election”, Open Secrets, 2017, https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/cost.php.

[1] Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 200 U. S. 321, 337, (2010).

[1] “Government By the People Act of 2017”, H.R. 20, 115th Congress. (2017).

[1] “A Better Deal: Cracking Down on Corporate Monopolies”, United States Senate, 2017, https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2017/07/A-Better-Deal-on-Competition-and-Costs-1.pdf.

[1] Deborah Berkowitz, “NELP Congressional Testimony on Harsh Conditions Endured by America’s Poultry Workers”, National Employment Law Project, September 8, 2017, https://www.nelp.org/publication/nelp-congressional-testimony-on-harsh-conditions-endured-by-americas-poultry-workers/.

[1] William A. Galston and Clara Hendrickson, “A policy at peace with itself: Antitrust remedies for our concentrated, uncompetitive economy”, Brookings Institute, January 5, 2018, https://www.brookings.edu/research/a-policy-at-peace-with-itself-antitrust-remedies-for-our-concentrated-uncompetitive-economy/.

[1] http://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/The-Shareholder-Myth.pdf

[1] William Lazonick, “Profits Without Prosperity”, Harvard Business Review, September 2014, https://hbr.org/2014/09/profits-without-prosperity.

[1] “GOP Tax Scam Toolkit on Tax Day 2018”, Nancy Pelosi: Democratic Leader, April 17, 2018, https://www.democraticleader.gov/newsroom/41718/.

[1] Rob Wile, “The Richest 10% of Americans Now own 84% of All Stocks”, Time Money, December 19, 2017, http://time.com/money/5054009/stock-ownership-10-percent-richest/.

[1] Arne Alsin, “The Ugly Truth Behind Stock Buybacks”, Forbes, February 28, 2018, https://www.forbes.com/sites/aalsin/2017/02/28/shareholders-should-be-required-to-vote-on-stock-buybacks/#55d3998b6b1e.

[1] Robert J. Jackson Jr., “Stock Buybacks and Corporate Cashouts”, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speech-jackson-061118.

[1] Lenore Palladino, “The ‘Tax Cuts for Shareholders’ Act”, Roosevelt Institute, February 20, 2018, http://rooseveltinstitute.org/tax-cuts-shareholders-act/.

[1] Lenore Palladino, “Stock Buybacks: Driving a High-Profit, Low-Wage Economy”, Roosevelt Institute, March 2018, http://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Stock-buybacks.pdf.

[1]Irene Tung and Katy Milani, “Curbing Stock Buybacks: A Crucial Step to Raising Worker Pay and Reducing Inequality”, NELP and Roosevelt Institute, July 2018, https://s27147.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/Curbing-Stock-Buybacks-A-Crucial-Step-in-Raising-Worker-Pay.pdf

[1] Stephen Koff, “New overtime-pay rule will require major pay boost for some”, Cleveland.com, May 18, 2016, https://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/05/new_overtime-pay_rule_will_req.html.

[1] “Raise the Wage Act”, H.R. 15, 115th Congress. (2017).

[1] David Cooper, “Raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2024 would lift wages for 41 million American workers”, Economic Policy Institute, April 26, 2017, https://www.epi.org/publication/15-by-2024-would-lift-wages-for-41-million/.

[1] Ibid.

[1] Lonnie Golden, “Irregular Work Scheduling and Its Consequences”, Economic Policy Institute, April 9. 2015, https://www.epi.org/publication/irregular-work-scheduling-and-its-consequences/.

[1] Joan C. Williams, Susan J. Lambert, Saravanan Kesavan, Peter J. Fugiel, Lori Ann Ospina, Erin Devorah Rapoport, Meghan Jarpe, Dylan Bellisle, Pradeep Pendem, Lisa McCorkell & Sarah Adler-Milstein, “Stable Scheduling Increases Productivity and Sales”, The Stable Scheduling Study, https://worklifelaw.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/Stable-Scheduling-Study-Report.pdf.

[1] “The Schedules that Work Act”, H.R. 2943, 115th Congress. (2017).

[1] Jay Shambaugh, Patrick Liu, and Greg Nantz, “Thirteen facts about wage growth”, Brookings Institution, September 25, 2017, https://www.brookings.edu/research/thirteen-facts-about-wage-growth/.

[1] Ibid.

[1] “The case against non-compete clauses”, The Economist, May 19, 2018, https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/05/19/the-case-against-non-compete-clauses.

[1] Steven Greenhouse, “Union Membership in U.S. Fell to a 70-Year Low Last Year”, The New York Times, January 21, 2011, https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/business/22union.html.

[1] Ibid.

[1] “As Inequality Reaches Highest Levels Since the Great Depression, House & Senate Democrats Introduce New Legislation to Provide a Better Deal for American Workers”, Democratic Leader, June 13, 2018, https://www.democraticleader.gov/newsroom/61318/.

[1] David Metcalf, “Unions and Productivity, Financial Performance and Investment: International Evidence”, Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, July 2002, http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/20072/1/Unions_and_Productivity%2C_Financial_Performance_and_Investment_International_Evidence.pdf.

[1] Robbert van het Kaar, “Determining terms of employment: works council or union?”, European Foundation for the improvement of Living and Working Conditions, March 27, 1997, https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/article/1997/determining-terms-of-employment-works-council-or-union.

[1] Joel Rogers and Wolfgang Streeck, Work Councils: Consultation, Representation, and Cooperation in Industrial Relations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).

[1] “A New Organizing Paradigm? Works Councils and the National Labor Relations Act”, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, November 2015, https://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/documents/files/u.s._chamber_works_council_report_0.pdf.

[1] Neal E. Boudette, “Volkswagon Reverses Course on Union at Tennessee Plant”, The New York Times, April 25, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/business/volkswagen-reverses-courseon-union-at-tennessee-plant.html?_r=0.

[1] Dylan Matthews, “The emerging plan to save the American labor movement”, Vox, April 9, 2018, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/9/17205064/union-labor-movement-collective-wage-boards-bargaining.

[1] Kate Andrias, “The New Labor Law”, The Yale Law Journal, October 2016, https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/the-new-labor-law.

[1] Dylan Matthews, “The emerging plan to save the American labor movement”, Vox, April 9, 2018, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/9/17205064/union-labor-movement-collective-wage-boards-bargaining.

[1] John T. Addison, Claus Schnabel, and Joachim Wagner, “The Course of Research into the Economic Consequences of German Works Councils”, Social Science Research Network, October 16, 2003, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=446402.

[1] Steven F. Freeman, “Effects of ESOP Adoption and Employee Ownership: Thirty years of Research and Experience”, University of Pennsylvania, January 4, 2007, http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=od_working_papers.

[1] Ross Eisenbrey, “Congressional Testimony: Updated Overtime Rules Will Help Millions of Middle-Class Workers”, Economic Policy Institute, July 23, 2015, https://www.epi.org/publication/congressional-testimony-updated-overtime-rules-will-help-millions-of-middle-class-workers/.

[1] Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney, “Building America’s Job Skills with Effective Workforce Programs: A Training Strategy to Raise Wages and Increase Work Opportunities”, Brookings Institute, November 30, 2011, https://www.brookings.edu/research/building-americas-job-skills-with-effective-workforce-programs-a-training-strategy-to-raise-wages-and-increase-work-opportunities/.

[1] Unites States Department of Labor, “Wage and Hour Division (WHD)”, U.S. Department of Labor, January 2015, https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs44.htm.

[1] U.S. Department of Labor, “FY 2017, Congressional Budget Justification, Wage and Hour Division”, U.S. Department of Labor, https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/documents/general/budget/CBJ-2017-V2-09.pdf.

[1] U.S. Department of Labor, “FY 2015 Annual Performance Report”, U.S. Department of Labor, https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/documents/general/budget/CBJ-2017-V1-01.pdf.

[1] U.S. Department of Labor, “FY 2017, Congressional Budget Justification, Wage and Hour Division”, U.S. Department of Labor, https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/documents/general/budget/CBJ-2017-V2-09.pdf.

[1] “Mandatory Arbitration Law and Legal Definition”, USLegal.com, https://definitions.uslegal.com/m/mandatory-arbitration/.

[1] Office of the Press Secretary, “Executive Order — Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces”, The White House, July 31, 2014, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/31/executive-order-fair-pay-and-safe-workplaces.

[1] Federal Register, “Federal Acquisition Regulation; Removal of Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Rule”, National Archives, November 8, 2011, https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/11/06/2017-23590/federal-acquisition-regulation-removal-of-fair-pay-and-safe-workplaces-rule.

[1] “Arbitration Fairness Act of 2017”, H.R. 1374, 115th Congress, (2017).

[1] Chris Lu, “We haven’t raised the federal minimum wage in 9 years. Now is the time”, CNBC, Jul 24, 2018, https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/23/the-minimum-wage-hasnt-been-raised-for-9-years-now-is-the-time.html.

[1] Elizabeth Kneebone, “Economic Recovery and the EITC: Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit to

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[1] John Judd and Glenn D. Rudebusch, “The Goals of U.S. Monetary Policy”, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, January 20, 1999, https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/1999/january/the-goals-of-us-monetary-policy/.

[1] Jena McGregor, “Meridian CEO pay for the 100 largest companies reached a record $15.7 million in 2017”, The Washington Post, April 11, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2018/04/11/median-ceo-pay-for-the-100-largest-companies-reached-a-record-15-7-million-in-2017/?utm_term=.b7da868585fc.

[1] “Conduct Elections”, National Labor Relations Board, https://www.nlrb.gov/what-we-do/conduct-elections.

[1] “How Employers Control the timing of the NLRB Election Process”, UC Berkeley Labor Center, December 2009, http://www.jwj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/how_employers_control_the_timing_of_the_nlrb_election_process.pdf.

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/briefingpapers_bp143/

[1] David Cooper, “Raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2024 would lift wages for 41 million American workers”, Economic Policy Institute, April 26, 2017, https://www.epi.org/publication/15-by-2024-would-lift-wages-for-41-million/.

[1] Ibid.

[1] Ibid.

[1] “General Section to HUD’s Fiscal Year 2016 Notice[s] of Funding Availability for Discretionary Programs”, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, September 22, 2015, https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/2016NOFA-GENSEC.PDF.

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[1] “Final Report in the WPA Program: 1935–43”, Library of Congress, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2008/20080212001fi/20080212001fi.pdf.

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[1] Robert Reich, “The Growing Danger of Dynastic Wealth”, robertreich.org, September 16, 2017, http://robertreich.org/post/165403227390.

[1] Theodore Roosevelt, “New Nationalism Speech”, TeachingAmericanHistory.org, August 31, 1910, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/new-nationalism-speech/.

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