Posts Tagged ‘Cost of Living’
Right to Work Benefits Fact Sheet Winter 2026
Right To Work continues to free employees by helping protect choice and creating new opportunities. New fact sheet from the National Institute for Labor Relations Research shows Right to Work states crushing it: faster job growth, higher real incomes, booming manufacturing, and more population gains vs. forced-unionism states (updated data). Download the Winter 2026 Right…
Read MoreLower Cost of Living Makes Workers Better OffÂ
The 26 Right to Work states combined had a population-weighted cost of living 4.4% below the national average. The 23 forced-unionism states combined had a population-weighted cost of living 17.4% above the national average.Â
Read MoreReal, Spendable Income Higher Per Capita in Right to Work States
Among the 14 states with the highest cost of living last year, not one has a Right to Work law. But 14 of the 15 lowest-cost states protected employees’ Right to Work in 2023.
Read MoreThe Fourteen Least-Affordable States All Lack Right To Work Protections
The correlation between forced-unionism status and a higher cost of living is robust. Not one of the 14 highest-cost states in 2019 has a Right to Work law. But 13 of the 15 lowest cost-of-living states protect employees’ Right to Work.
There is a compelling case to be made that compulsory unionism actually fosters a higher cost of living.
Read MorePoverty Higher in Forced-Dues States
A recent U.S. Census Bureau (BOC) report furnishes data on the average share of residents living in poverty in each of the 50 states from 2016-18. BOC supplemental poverty measure (SPM) data show a population-weighted average forced-dues-state poverty rate of 13.4%. That’s more than 2% higher than the population-weighted average for Right to Work states.…
Read MoreForced-Dues State Households Have Less Real Income
Higher Costs for Consumers Translate Into Lower Living Standards for Employees and Everyone Else [download fact sheet here] In California, the erstwhile Golden State, K-12 educators obviously recognize that they don’t live so well relative to educators in other states. That’s why Big Labor-controlled California’s teachers are fleeing to other states in droves. From 2003…
Read MorePer Capita Income Higher in Right To Work States
Cost of Living-Adjusted, After-Tax Income Per Capita More Than $2,400 Higher in Right to Work States Than in Forced-Unionism States An ever-growing mountain of scholarly research and countless Americans’ personal experience confirm that nominal income per capita, unadjusted for regional differences in cost of living, is quite misleading as a measure of living standards within…
Read MoreFourteen Least-Affordable States Are All Forced-Unionism
Early last week, the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC), a state government agency, published its latest set of state comparative cost-of-living indices. (See the link below.) MERIC’s new indices estimate the average annual cost of living in 2016 for each state. The National Institute for Labor Relations Research has now used…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Far More Costly to Live in
Recently the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC), a state government agency, published its latest set of state comparative cost-of-living indices. (See the link below.Because late 2015 data for New Mexico could not be obtained, it is excluded.) MERIC’s new indices estimate the average annual cost of living in 2015 for each…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Were on Average 22% More Costly to Live in Than Right to Work States in 2014
Recently the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) published its latest set of comparative cost-of-living indices for the 50 states. (See the link below.) MERIC’s new indices estimate the average annual cost of living in 2014 for each state. The National Institute for Labor Relations Research has now used these data to…
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