Is declining union membership driving inequality?

Nicholas Kristof in The Cost of a Decline in Unions writes that up to a third of the increase in inequality in the USA may be due to the decline in private sector unions.

Nick Hanauer on paying more people overtime

In This is why the middle class can’t get ahead Nick Hanauer, who became rich as one of the original investors in Amazon, explains why the USA should increase the maximum threshold for overtime pay, and where companies and the rich spend their money (that the middle class isn't earning).

Increasing minimum wages may be a good thing

Ross Gittins in Minimum wage rises don't lift unemployment, analysts agree looks at economic research suggesting that increasing the minimum wage may actually be good for employment.

There's been no wages blowout, but maybe a coming wages collapse

Greg Jericho in I'd wager our earnings aren't too high observes that not only haven't we had a wages blowout over the last decade, what we should really be concerned about is a decline in real wages and an increase in inequality over the next decade.