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People-Side Economics: Better Ways to Cut Inflation

>> Read interview published by Convergence Magazine

In an interview with Stephanie Luce, PERI's Robert Pollin argues that increasing interest rates and, thus, reducing workers' bargaining power, is not the solution to addressing inflation. He posits that "The Fed and most mainstream economists don’t take into account that businesses have been raising prices faster than wages have gone up."

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