{"id":158530,"date":"2024-06-25T01:28:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T05:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=158530"},"modified":"2024-06-25T01:28:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T05:28:17","slug":"from-work-to-wealth-and-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=158530","title":{"rendered":"From Work to Wealth and Back Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally published at Pennsylvania Policy Center<\/a> on June 25, 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Americans suffer because we reward wealth more than work.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n


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Here\u2019s how we got here and how we can create an economy that works for all of us.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pursuit of tax justice is now central to the work of both the Pennsylvania Policy Center and our advocacy arm Pennsylvanians Together. It is also the theme of our People\u2019s Budget Summit this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In developing this campaign, we needed to pull together a lot of research about  the history and politics of economic and tax policy over the last forty years.  Our executive director has been working on a long paper that surveys this broad topic, which should be read for release by the end of the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was far enough along, however, to give a 15-minute talk previewing the main themes of the paper at our People’s Budget Summit in early June. This is a revised version of the talk. It’s a little dense, but in just seven pages it gives a overview of how and why the rewards for wealth have jumped in the U.S. and rewards for work have shrunk in our economy over the last 40 years, as well as what we can do to reverse direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is, of course, a huge topic. The paper borrows ideas from others with a few twists of ours own, especially in the political analysis of why the shift from work to wealth took place and what we can do to reverse it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We would love to hear your thoughts on this early version of our project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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