{"id":16117,"date":"2015-09-11T14:05:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T21:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=16117"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:39:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T02:39:56","slug":"children-in-high-union-areas-do-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2015\/09\/11\/children-in-high-union-areas-do-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Children in High Union Areas Do Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/NoamScheiber.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Noam Scheiber\" title=\"Noam Scheiber\" class=\"left\" \/><i>It is well established that unions provide benefits to workers &#8212; that they raise wages for their members (and even for nonmembers). They can help reduce inequality.<\/p>\n<p>A new study suggests that unions may also help children move up the economic ladder.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Harvard, Wellesley, and the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, released a paper Wednesday showing that children born to low-income families typically ascend to higher incomes in metropolitan areas where union membership is higher&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The authors posit a variety of reasons for why higher rates of unionization tend to coincide with greater mobility, beyond the effect on parents&#8217; wages, which would seem to be the most obvious way unionization could matter.<\/p>\n<p>Their most interesting explanation is that unions are effective at pushing the political system to deliver policies &#8212; like a higher minimum wage and greater spending on schools and other government programs &#8212; that broadly benefit workers. Perhaps not surprisingly, three cities that appear to reflect the union effect &#8212; San Francisco, Seattle and New York &#8212; are all jurisdictions where the minimum wage is rising substantially (though for New York it is only for workers in fast-food chains.).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&mdash;Noam Scheiber<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/10\/upshot\/how-an-areas-union-membership-can-predict-childrens-advancement.html?_r=0\">How an Area&#8217;s Union Membership Can Predict Children&#8217;s Advancement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is well established that unions provide benefits to workers &#8212; that they raise wages for their members (and even for nonmembers). They can help reduce inequality. A new study suggests that unions may also help children move up the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2015\/09\/11\/children-in-high-union-areas-do-better\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Children in High Union Areas Do Better at Frankly Curious<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2015\/09\/11\/children-in-high-union-areas-do-better\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Children in High Union Areas Do Better at Frankly Curious\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is well established that unions provide benefits to workers &#8212; that they raise wages for their members (and even for nonmembers). 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