### Jack Trawick

Jack Trawick

@jacktrawick534762

City Planner, lifelong resident of Louisville KY

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[Aug 21, 2025](https://substack.com/@jacktrawick534762/note/c-147612908 "Aug 21, 2025, 7:32 AM")

[Source: Congressional Research Service The correlation with both the Great Compression and the post-1980 rise in inequality is obvious. However, laying out the ways in which power can explain the fall and rise of inequality will take a lot of time and space. So will laying out the problems with that argument — for it, too, has some weak points. So, to be continued, probably next

Source: Congressional Research Service The correlation with both the Great Compression and the post-1980 rise in inequality is obvious. However, laying out the ways in which power can explain the fall and rise of inequality will take a lot of time and space. So will laying out the problems with that argument — for it, too, has some weak points. So, to be continued, probably next

Paul Krugman](https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/understanding-inequality-part-i?selection=f69b808d-ba65-4df1-b305-34b91635714a)