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Inequality poses a dire threat to the American way of life. That may not be a sentiment many conservatives share, but they should. Inequality threatens the nationâs social fabric and the promise of the American dream: that each generation will live a more prosperous life than the one before it. But addressing inequality has long been the Leftâs turf. It sets the terms of debate, replacing basic equality with intersectional âequity.â And it fixes the window of possible solutions, offering schemes to take from the global economyâs winners and compensate its losers.
Itâs time for conservatives to respond by taking seriously the real problem of economic inequality and offering ideas that address its causes, not its outcomes â securing greater economic opportunities up and down the income ladder.
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Why Conservatives Should Embrace Labor Unions to Reduce Economic Inequality
American Compassâs Wells King connects dysfunctional labor laws, declining union-participation, and partisan interests to the rise of economic inequality.
Can Catholic Social Teaching Redeem a Post-Trump, Pro-Labor Republican Party?
Rachel Lu highlights American Compassâs Oren Cass and our Guide to Economic Inequality in a discussion of the role of Catholic social teaching in pro-labor conservatism.
Give Workers Power to Boost Productivity, Reduce Inequality
Itâs an approach that echoes themes of the recent American Compass statement: a well-functioning system of organized labor should both ârender[] much bureaucratic oversight superfluousâ and reinforce the benefits of tight labor markets âthrough economic agency and self-reliance, rather than retreat to dependence on redistribution.â