The Progressive Case for Productivity Growth
A growing number of progressives have become decidedly ambivalent, if not downright hostile toward the idea of increasing productivity, seeing it as a threat to progressive goals of full employment, fairness, and stability. But in truth, as Rob Atkinson writes in Washington Monthly, the only sustainable way to increase people's wages, lower inequality, and strengthen the middle class is to raise productivity. That’s why a truly progressive economic agenda must include pro-productivity policies that drive growth.
