"The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor." When the rules squeeze workers, workers organize—because the economy only grows when paychecks grow.

The stock market is up. Corporate profits are strong. And 108,000 people just lost their jobs in January alone—the worst start to a year since 2009. Maybe it's time to ask: when we say "the economy is doing well," *who* exactly are we talking about?

Trickle-down economics says: “Give the rich more, and hope they share.” [Spoiler: THEY DON'T] Middle-out economics says: “Build from the middle, and everyone rises.” It’s not just fairer—it’s smarter. The path to a strong economy isn’t paved with tax cuts for billionaires.

A reminder to us all that 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩'𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐩𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. The bottom 40% lose income while top 0.1% get windfalls. It slashes Medicaid, ACA & food aid to fund billionaire tax cuts. This isn't fiscal policy—it's systematic looting disguised as governance.

A recent NYT/Siena poll reveals the depth of middle-class collapse in America. The data isn't just bad—it's a systematic validation of what middle-out economics has been arguing about 50 years of trickle-down policy. 🧵

🦷 The Tooth Fairy cut her per-tooth rate from $5.84 to $5.01—a 14% drop in 1 yr— because apparently the vibes of trickle-down economics have penetrated even the magical realm. When a fairy w/ infinite resources is like "sorry kiddo, times are tough," you know wealth isn't trickling anywhere but up.

Prosperity grows from the middle out. A large and prosperous middle class is the primary cause of economic growth, not its consequence.

Every narrative that erases union leadership is telling you worker power doesn’t matter. Don’t believe it. When you organize your workplace, you’re not just improving conditions—you’re building the infrastructure that makes resistance possible when it counts. ✊

A 21-year-old making 3x minimum wage still can't afford rent alone. An engineer making $160K struggles more than his parents did. 10% of people making >$200K can't afford retirement. This is what 50 years of trickle-down built. 🧵

Wages: ↑ 10% Housing: ↑ 300% Healthcare: Bankruptcies Childcare > College "Why aren't American workers happy about the economy?" Maybe because percentages don't pay rent and essential markets are designed to extract maximum profit from those who can least afford it.

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Recent research shows that the Supreme Court rules for the wealthy 3 out of 4 times. Your paycheck should be double what it is. Housing should be affordable. Courts should be fair. None of this is an accident. The system really 𝘪𝘴 designed to favor wealth.

"The abominations of capital are not glitches. They are the system working as designed." Every person sleeping outside while empty luxury apts exist. Every worker w/ multiple jobs who can't afford rent. Every medical bankruptcy. These things are not accidents. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/abominatio...

"Tax the billionaires" accepts that markets naturally create billionaires. "Predistribution" asks: WHY are we designing markets that create billionaires through exploitation in the first place? The framework: Pay working people fairly *from the start.* (via @rooseveltinstitute.org)

Working peoples’ share of U.S. income just hit an all-time low—lower than any point since we started measuring in 1947. Workers are producing more value than ever. Corps are posting record profits. And yet the people doing the work are getting the smallest slice of the pie they’ve ever gotten.

Twelve billionaires now control as much wealth as 4 billion people—literally half of humanity. 🤯 Twelve. People.

When the rules tilt toward the rich, people notice. And when trust in core institutions erodes, markets suffer too. Middle-out growth depends on fairness—and credibility.

A major set of state labor laws went into effect on Jan 1, including higher wages, paid leave, scheduling protections & enforcement against wage theft. This isn’t accidental. It’s the result of organizing—and proof that economies work better when workers have power.

Strengthening collective bargaining isn't anti-business. It's pro-economy. And the evidence is overwhelming: Research from the IMF and others shows that stronger unions reduce income inequality while supporting sustainable growth.

A thriving middle class isn't just the result of economic growth. It's the CAUSE of economic growth. This changes everything.

Over 8 million workers are getting a long overdue raise. 19 states increased their minimum wage this month. More workers now live in states with a $15+ wage than those stuck at the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour. Much needed relief for working families as wages lag behind the cost of living

‘Strong economy’ with Great Recession-level hunger? That’s by design.

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Today's billionaires own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the country. Here's how wealth inequality spiraled out of control — and what we can do to fix it. https://youtu.be/wOI8RuhW7q0?si=Fq4N9wTQhLHawXq7

Amazon delivery drivers: $19/hour with no raises, 26% faced hunger, 60% under constant tech surveillance. UPS drivers: $35/hour rising to $40/hour, union protection, actual benefits. One's a sustainable business model. But guess which one gets called "the future of work"?

Everyone's talking about affordability, but they're making the same mistake: focusing only on prices while ignoring the real problem—45 years of wage suppression.

Immigration restrictions aren't creating the jobs boom politicians promised—they're actually weakening the labor market for everyone. The unemployment rate for native-born workers climbed to 4.3%, up from 3.9% a year earlier. Why? Because immigration restrictions 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 overall job creation.

Every economic indicator is flashing yellow ⚠️ ➝ Unemployment ticking up ➝ Inflation ➝ Debt at record highs ➝ Consumer confidence cratering But policy responses are paralyzed because the signals are "mixed"... Meanwhile, working families know exactly what's happening

You're working harder for less while someone else gets rich off what you built.

A generation ago, a single factory job could pay for a house, raise a family & build a nest egg. That’s not the America we live in anymore. Today’s working families can’t afford even a modest home—no matter how many hours they clock.

As long as labor and ownership remain structurally separated, wealth concentration will continue accelerating. The question facing business leaders and policymakers: Will we scale the proven model, or continue marginalizing it while inequality deepens?

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

$28.17/hour to afford a one-bedroom apartment. $7.25/hour minimum wage. The math doesn't math because it was never designed to. For fifty years, we've kept wages flat while everything else skyrocketed. That's not a market force. That's a design choice.

"If you think dark times are ahead, each family pulls back to save. But if enough people do that, businesses lose money, lay off workers, and generate a negative feedback loop." The self-fulfilling prophecy is already in motion.

"Polyworking" isn't a "career trend"—it's what happens when wages don't keep pace with the cost of living and people need 2-3 jobs just to survive. Call it what it is: a policy failure, NOT a lifestyle choice.

When the wage you need is nearly 4x the wage they'll pay, that's not a housing or wage crisis. That's proof the system is designed to extract from working people, not support them. Middle-out economics starts w/ a simple premise: if you work full-time, you should be able to afford a place to live.

SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

But there's a lot more of us than there are of them.

As long as labor and ownership remain structurally separated, wealth concentration will continue to accelerate. The question facing business leaders and policymakers: Will we scale the proven model, or continue marginalizing it while inequality deepens?

Breaking: Business owners can now pay lower tax rates than their own employees ❌ A manager making $90k pays 22% on their last dollar ❌ Their boss making $180k in passive income pays 19% Totally normal and healthy economic system we have here 🙄

The math is pretty simple: $1 trillion to the top 1% $1.1 trillion cut from food assistance + Medicaid This is what happens when you design policy around the theory that enriching billionaires somehow helps everyone else. Spoiler: it doesn't.

Houston airport workers just won a $20/hr wage floor, one of the HIGHEST in the city. Why? Because they organized and demanded what their labor is worth. When workers have power, wages rise, families thrive, and the whole economy wins. www.houstonchronicle.com/business/art...

Pay *is* a policy choice. True affordability means working people earning enough to live with dignity and security.

We're running out of words to describe how much billionaires are stealing from us.

The greatest policy failure of the last half-century, measured. When we say the economy is rigged, this is what we mean—$79 trillion didn't disappear, it was systematically redirected upward while working people were told to be patient and let wealth trickle down.

Research shows that 80% of corporate tax cut benefits flow to the top 10% w/ literally 0% going to lower-paid workers. Yet we keep implementing federal policies based on the fantasy that lining the pockets of the already-rich somehow helps everyone else.

Corporations are pricing for the wealthy, which drives up costs for everyone else. Hard to ignore that a key source of higher costs is that half of all spending is done by the top 10%.

We too often look at prices when talking about affordability & not enough at wages. As Harold Meyerson explains, had the bottom 90% earned the same share of national income they did in 1975, by 2023 they would have made an additional $79 trillion! prospect.org/2025/12/03/7...

Black Friday may have looked strong, but dig deeper & it’s a warning sign. ▪️ Online prices ↑ 7% ▪️ Order volume ↓ ▪️ Furniture $ ↑ 24% after the tariff hikes; the highest since 1935 Americans are spending more & getting less. That’s not a boom--that's a K-shaped economy squeezing working families.

The top 10% of U.S. households now control 67% of all wealth. THE TOP 10% OF U.S. HOUSEHOLDS NOW CONTROL 67% OF ALL WEALTH. 🤯 This isn’t an accident, or the natural result of market forces. It’s the predictable outcome of YEARS of trickle-down economic policy that was designed to do exactly this.