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If Unionization Rates Were 10 Percent Higher, The Typical Middle Class Household Would Earn $1,479 More Every Year

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The Center for American Progress Action Fund's David Madland and Nick Bunker have crunched the numbers and found that if unionization rates were just 10 percentage points higher -- meaning there would be a net rate of 22.2 percent as opposed to the current 12.2 percent -- the typical middle class household would earn $1,479 more every year. That number is almost equivalent to the $1,638 more these families would earn every year from increasing college attainment rates by 10 percent
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