sentences:  Unions both raised average wages for their membership, and indirectly, and to a lesser extent, raised wages for non-union workers in similar occupations.Economist Paul Krugman claimed that political support for equalizing government policies was provided by high voter turnout from union voting drives, Southern support for the New Deal, and prestige that the massive mobilization and victory of World War II had given the government.Alternatively, Marxist George Novacks wrote, "While the American worker enjoys the highest standard of living of any worker in the world, he is also the most heavily exploited.