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"[T]he good news is that much of the conservative and corporate agenda recounted by The One Percent Solution is highly unpopular. Large majorities of adults, even Republicans, support efforts to take care of the environment, bolster social programs for families and children, improve our nation's infrastructure, and expand labor rights, even union rights. The bad news is that opponents to the right-wing, business-friendly troika have been slow to mobilize counterweights of their own. The One Percent Solution should thus be a wake-up call to anyone concerned about the economic well-being of working Americans." (Dissent)"Gordon Lafer's The One Percent Solution seeks to explain several puzzling aspects of American politics today. Why do people of modest means who depend on government-funded health care and Social Security or other supplements to their income continue to vote for candidates who promise to privatize or get rid of those very programs. Why do pepole who are poor vote for politicians who promise to cut corporate taxes?... [Lafer] meticulously demonstrates how the Koch brothers and the Suprme Court's Citizen's United decision of 2010 have influenced elections and public policy in the states." (The New York Review of Books)"Lafer (Univ. of Oregon) focuses interdisciplinary attention on the strategies and tactics of a handful of registered nationwide lobbyists (American Legislative Exchange Council, Americans for Prosperity, the US Chamber of Commerce, and the National Federation of Independent Business), which submitted "model legislation" to state legislators. He critiques the policies these groups espoused regarding minimum wages, union memberships, employee rights, government funding, and public education. The author presents evidence of economic impact from these state laws, which contrast greatly from the original proclamations of how these changes should improve a state’s economy. Lafer examines tactics lobbyists used to weaken state funding for auditing and enforcing payroll regulations and promoting charter schools and voucher programs, irrespective of the actual results from those reforms. The voluminous resources listed in the notes are accurate and very accessible. " (Choice)"The One Percent Solution is a must-read for all who want to ensure the revival and survival of American democracy." (Margaret Levi, Sara Miller McCune Director, Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University)"For anyone who doubts that corporations are just as coordinated as they ever have been, or that the most critical issues on their agenda are eliminating unions, reducing the minimum wage, and limiting government social benefits, then this highly original and comprehensive examination of their shared legislative priorities and successes in all fifty states is now the one best book you can read." (G. William Domhoff, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, University of CaliforniaSanta Cruz, author of Who Rules America? )"Gordon Lafer's One Percent Solution is must reading for anyone who wants to understand inequality in the twenty-first century. He puts names and faces to the powerful corporations who have used their political influence to shape America’s economy. Lafer takes us into corporate boardrooms to show us a shockingly ambitious agenda to remake the American economy. Kudos to Lafer for writing a book that breaks new ground, is interesting to read, and will be of great interest to general readers, political junkies, and college students alike." (Peter Dreier, E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College)"Gordon Lafer's The One Percent Solution leaves no stone unturned in exposing how corporations’ conscious political strategy has made life harder for American workers by promoting bad ideas such as 'right to work’ and a flat-lined minimum wage. I commend Lafer for shining a light on the manipulations of corporate special interests. Workers simply cannot wait any longer. Now more than ever, every American should read this book." (US Representative Rosa DeLauro)"In The One Percent Solution, Gordon Lafer exposes the vast conspiracy between corporate special interests and their allies in government to rig the rules of our economy and democracy to favor the wealthy few. Anyone who is committed to turning the tide back in favor of working people must first understand what we are up against―and that means reading this book." (Richard L. Trumka, President, AFL-CIO)"In an age of divided government and Congressional gridlock, Gordon Lafer shows that a handful of the nation's most conservative business lobbying organizations were still able to get some of the public policies that they want―by focusing their efforts on state legislatures. This book reveals the outlines of a coordinated lobbying campaign that could have the effect of increasing economic and political inequality in America." (Isaac William Martin, University of California, San Diego, author of Rich People’s Movements: Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent)
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About the Author
Gordon Lafer is Associate Professor at the Labor Education and Research Center at the University of Oregon. He is the author of The One Percent Solution: How Corporations Are Remaking America One State at a Time and The Job Training Charade, both from Cornell. He has served as Senior Policy Advisor for the U.S. Congress and has been called to testify as an expert witness before multiple state legislatures.
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Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: ILR Press; 1 edition (April 4, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781501703065
ISBN-13: 978-1501703065
ASIN: 1501703064
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The One Percent Solution is a tour of Dystopia, USA. Fifty statehouses are under assault by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and other far right groups funded by the Koch brothers, to minimize or eliminate any rights for labor and citizens in general. This includes child labor, sick days, the right to unionize and the right to sue. All over the country, statehouses are overturning laws, referenda, voter initiatives and of course election promises, ignoring polls and preventing protests as they do the bidding of their financiers. Gordon Lafer says that in playing states off against each other, they fall like dominoes in a race to the bottom. The playbook says: work on one state, showing it will have a unique advantage in attracting employers if it enacts this law (already written and ready for passage), then pressuring the neighboring states to adopt it or be left behind. Sadly, they never actually result in additional employment, just lower wages. ALEC succeeds at this game some 200 times a year.I very much like that Lafer doesn’t seek to expose so much as to understand. Why are governors promulgating these bizarre, anti-citizen bills? Why are lobbyists seeking to make life miserable for so many? Finding the rationale behind the activity is not always intuitive, and Lafer does a great job of getting to the bottom of it. There are three parts to every issue. There’s the what, the actual data from studies, polls and experts, and the real story behind the push. The what is despicable, the data are ugly, and the why is revolting, but it makes for an informative and comprehensive understanding of constant outrage at the hands of business:-64% of low wage workers have some portion of their wages stolen by employers. Including 75% of those due overtime. Annually, it totals 15% of worker income. This is several times the sum of all forms of robbery combined.-Business seeks to limit laws, lawsuits and awards for nonpayment and underpayment of wages, violation of tipping laws, unauthorized or illegal paycheck deductions and incorrect classification to avoid minimum wage or overtime. States pass such laws despite overwhelming public opposition.-40% of the workers have no right to even a single day of paid sick leave. Not for themselves and not for their children.-Standardized tests’ sole purpose is to denigrate and eliminate public schools as their results falter. Charter schools are exempt. Once voters permit conversion to charter, no vote can change it back.-Five states now require online courses to graduate from high school. Online schools are funded at levels equal to real schools, without any of the costs.-Child labor laws are disappearing so business can pay less than minimum wage. Meal breaks are no longer required and seven day shifts are allowed – on the basis that states should have no say where there are parents.-States are pre-empting local government actions to increase minimum wages, require meal breaks for workers, set minimum staffing for police and fire, or improve safety or the environment. Even retroactively invalidating local laws.Most of their efforts seek to drive down wages. Cutting off unemployment benefits, eliminating unions, encouraging independent contractors, making states Right-to-Work - all have the effect of lowering wages statewide. The stats back this up dramatically. It is common that once decent careers no longer support an individual, let alone a family.Alain Badiou says that government structure should be totally disconnected from the interiority of capitalism, and this is the living proof. Thomas Frank says the common people are finally getting what they deserve – from both political parties.The One Percent Solution is infuriating. The whole reason we need local government is to protect the individual from the abuses of the recklessly powerful. So they just buy everyone, and are abusing as never before, hollowing out states until they are meaningless. This is Dystopia. It is a miserable, feudal society that is mean and nasty, strict and unforgiving. This was not supposed to be the United States of America. But it’s here now, and those growing up in it, think this is normal, desirable and right. (They are taught so in charter schools.) Reduce expectations, and eventually eliminate all services. Sounds like a plan.David Wineberg
There are many explanatory themes that have emerged since the Wisconsin Winter and the 2011 state level attacks on the public sector, the services it provides, and the workers that provide them. Predatory governors and state legislatures have been duly demonized on the left for their attacks on vital public services, their callous comments and their oft manufactured budget crises. These alarming and catastrophic attacks have emerged with elements of singularity in multiple state capitol buildings around the United States.Professor Gordon Lafer’s book The One Percent Solution demonstrates the source of this singularity. Lafer, Associate Professor at the Labor Education and Research Center at the University of Oregon, has been called upon as an expert to various states, labor organizations, and federal government entities. His sober and unrelenting analysis moves the listener (and reader) into ever-increasing waves of doom from the likes of ALEC, far-right conservative house speakers, the Koch brothers, the Tea Party and Trump neo-tribalism.Lafer’s fundamental analysis is an exploration of why the right is winning state by state to birth a new nation. However, the most challenging intellectual threads of Lafer’s analysis are the contradictions within the right that expose an ideological rift underneath a tenuous right-wing coalition. Economic statistics do not support the right-wing movement claims of economic growth. When these statistics fail Lafer takes the opportunity to expose the contradiction and show that the true agenda is one of a deep political and moral nature - the destruction of the remaining vestiges of the reformist New Deal.Lafer’s book opens an entire field of analysis and as such the frame he creates is of fundamental importance.This is Lafer’s framework: increasing economic inequality leads to growing political inequality, politics are nationalized by business lobbies to form a fifty-state agenda, and corporate efforts to benefit the privileged undermine worker’s market power (union and non-union, public and private) are products of decades long development (37). The aggravating upsurge to the present decade-long crisis comes from the extreme money concentration permissible under Citizens United. The financial meltdown in 2008 has led to a permanent restructuring of the American landscape where both real and manufactured economic crises form the bases for permanent structures of austerity. The forms are both physical and ideological. To wit, the physical floods that swept away portions of New Orleans were used to implement austerity government and the formerly public schools were chartered and city was left without public schools.Lafer relies on fifty-state, thirty-issue, five-year database of corporate-backed legislation to empirically demonstrate the structural antecedents to political events such as Act 10 in Wisconsin which sliced collective bargaining from the public sector. In this process, the government is dismantled, the labor force is de-unionized, and this nonunion economy is transformed into a massive wealth transfer to the 1%, public schooling is attacked and Unions are forcibly removed from politics by an economy of scale and burdensome logically inconsistent requirements. The final contradiction is that the populist resistance at present has largely taken the form of xenophobic, resentment based politics.Lafer’s book is depressing because of sound reporting and analysis. This is not a how-to manual to understand this fix and then resist. He even tries at the end (like most good-hearted progressives) to give a glimmer of hope which comes off as ceremonial and as a psychological palliative. That said, the most important aspects of his book for the work of the future is two-fold.First, it creates the basic structure for largely academic but potentially popular political economic analysis of a many states interplay of politics. The potential for state and regional analysis of a large, partially unified threat will inevitably yield common strengths and weaknesses of the austerity movement.Second, and most important, Lafer’s analysis shows the shift from the shared prosperity model to a statewide and nationwide model that propels a massive wealth transfer from the masses to the wealthy. This is the primary and only aim of these policies. In fact, to demonstrate this point: ‘ALEC policies actually enjoyed significantly lower growth rates - in both employment and income – than those ALEC deems politically incorrect. Minnesota – a state that ALEC deems the third-worst policy regime in the country – was crowned by CNBC as the best state for business in 2015.†When faced with these economic contradictions the argument posed by ALEC transitions to a moral claim.These moral claims seek to protect the taxpayer from the public servant. They seek to lift the government assistance recipient from their dependency. And, most recently, they seek to protect unwary Americans from their cumbersome government facilitated health insurance. Lafer notes, however, that the true threat of labor is its work to protect all laboring people from the effects of the anti-union attack. The labor movement not only defends the needs of its dues-paying membership but also is pivotal in opposing a corporate state. Many state and federal worker protections are borne of organized labor. Further, as a political entity, organized labor is the last group standing against a total corporate takeover. It is not simply organized labor’s protective activity for its share of 12% of workers covered by labor agreements but the 88% of workers who gain from the movement’s advocacy.Lafer’s book is essential to explain what has come before it. His frame of analysis and deep understanding of the crisis we face will be pivotal for the intellectual and political work that springs forth.
This is a great book. Lafer digs in deep on the HOW and especially the WHY of our current political-economic situation. Well written and so enlightening. For so many in the country right now wondering what in the world is going on here, this explains alot of it.
The absolute greed of the ultra rich and the corporations will lead to the destruction of democracy and our nation.
Super informative insight into how huge corporations and their lobbyists are working to defund our government and undermine workers at the state level. Infuriating and eye-opening.
Gordon Lafer's reporting and analysis are first-rate, shedding crucial light on how the right-wing has consolidated power at the state level to change the rules of the game and undermine American democracy.
Excellent book, was required reading for a class but I learned a lot from it.
I liked the information as it was presented and the author used evidence to prove his points. The information helped me to understand the current political environment and public school systems.
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