David Brooks Gets Story on Wage Growth and Productivity Completely Wrong

Yeah, what else is new. After all no one thinks that a conservative columnist writing for the country's most important newspaper should have any clue about the topics they cover.

Brooks uses his column today to tell us that workers are getting their share of the economic pie and the real problem is productivity growth.

"The problem of the middle-class squeeze, in short, may not be with how the fruits of productivity are distributed, but the fact that there isn’t much productivity growth at al...

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Published on September 15, 2017 02:44
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