Wage Stagnation And The Sequester: It Would Help To Be Noticed

Economist Mark Thoma has an interesting observation about the relative weight of impacts of the sequester: "If wage stagnation and growing inequality," he says,  "somehow caused flight delays and other inconveniences for those who are doing okay -- the people with the most political power -- maybe we'd put more effort into doing something about it."

Here's what economist Jared Bernstein has to say about the issue.