"How to raise wages? By the usual methods that obtained before a plutocracy of CEOs and Wall Streeters specializing in conflicts of interest grabbed the economy by the throat: higher minimum wage laws, enforcement of the Wagner Act recognizing the right to form unions, and the use of federal reimbursements to set decent wage levels in human service work.
"How to pay for that? Restore progressive taxation on the wealthiest."
Robert Kuttner in The American Prospect considers a supposed nursing shortage.
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