The productivity issue is being used by red-dog economists to explain the flat wages - yes, I heard that in a presentation from a nationally-known Chamber of Commerce economist at a recent event. So wages are flat because the US workforce is not productive enough! No mention of lack of demand, of course, from the supply-siders.
Incredible, this separate reality that they have built for themselves.

For all of 2014, labor costs were up a modest 1.8 percent after a slight 0.2 percent gain in 2013. Productivity for all of 2014 was up just 0.7 percent, similar to the 0.9 percent gain in 2013.

To them, "inflation" is the panic that sets in when the working class' incomes go up. When the 1 percent's income raises ( again ) they're absolutely bereft of this panic.

It's how they contradict their own trickle-down meme; the irony is laid so bare:

To them, it's an article of faith that it is the one-percent's spending that drive the economy with their spending; not the hoi-polloi. "Job creators" blah blah blah

But if that's the case, by their own worrying that the prole's increased spending power will overheat the ecomomy; isn't that really admitting that it's the working class that drives the economy?

To me these clowns hide behind economic wonkery to push their real agenda: class-based contempt for the 99 percent.

That whole AP piece tries to pass itself off as some official or clinical sounding careful study. Turns out to be just another mouthpiece for the plutocrats.

have a direct impact on productivity. Considering that many states are jumping on the RTW band wagon this should not come as a surprise.

http://neatoday.org/2012/08/14/right-to-work-laws-increase-poverty-decrease-productivity-2/