America’s Dual Economy: Why the Middle Class Is Vanishing
A collection of INET research and articles on how and why the middle class has been shrinking and how this leads to a “dual economy”
Paper
Race to the Bottom: Low Productivity, Market Power, and Lagging Wages
“Dualism” in the structure of production across sectors of the US economy, employment by sector, productivity levels and growth, real wages, and intersectoral terms-of trade increased markedly between 1990 and 2016.
Article
The American Dual Economy: Race, Globalization and the Politics of Exclusion
The United States economy has come apart, with the rich getting richer and workers’ incomes not advancing at all.
Article
How Economics and Race Drive America’s Great Divide
Can education stop the country’s backward slide?