The Key to Rebuilding Workers' Power: Unrig the Rules

"The list of rules that need changing is long, but this is where a successful effort to rebuild the middle class must focus its efforts. As long as the economy is rigged to redistribute income upward, tax and transfer policies designed to help the middle class and the poor will inevitably fail. The right knows this; if progressives can't learn this basic fact, then we are spinning our wheels no matter how angry and organized we get.

Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research