2. Frydman, Carola, and Raven E. Molloy. “Pay Cuts for the Boss: Executive Compensation in the 1940s.” Journal of Economic History 71, no.1 (2011). Evidence that wartime policy compressed top executive pay relative to workers.
3. Lichtenstein, Nelson. State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. Princeton University Press, 2002. Comprehensive history of U.S. labor power and the policy shifts beginning in the Reagan era.
4. Federal Reserve Board. Distributional Financial Accounts of the United States. Ongoing series. Data showing wealth losses and uneven recovery following the 2008 financial crisis.
5. Obama, Barack. “The Way Ahead.” Speech delivered December 6, 2016. Presidential acknowledgment of inequality risks in post-crisis recovery policy.
6. Autor, David, Arindrajit Dube, and Annie McGrew. “The Unexpected Compression: Competition at Work in the Low-Wage Labor Market.” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2023. Empirical documentation of post-pandemic wage gains among low-paid workers and temporary inequality compression.