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Finally, numerous statistics belie Krugman's claim that real wages inevitably rise with productivity.
Outsourcing parts production means that instead of paying a United Auto Workers member $45 an hour in wages and benefits, Chrysler can buy parts from a nonunion firm paying its workers $14 an hour.
Decent wages and working conditions are not a side issue.
In fact, there was virtually no downward distribution of wealth during the New Deal or in the 50 years after World War II--and only a modest downward distribution during World War II, caused not by taxation but by economic growth and rising wages.
The NYT lead reports that on Sunday, the night before his second attempt to win confirmation as PM from the Russian parliament, Chernomyrdin used his TV address to defend and further explain the economic platform he rolled out last week: printing billions of rubles now to pay for years of soldiers', civil servants' and defense workers' back wages and pensions and to save banks, and cutting the profits tax by 50 percent and then in just a few months, strictly controlling the currency, collecting taxes and cutting government spending.