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While small businesses with fewer than 20 employees constitute a critical part of the U.S. economy, they are not the principal source of jobs today or of job creation for the future. More than three quarters of all private-sector employees…
Last year, according to data reported in June by the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 4.62 children aged 17 and under for every 10 adults aged 25-64 living in the 24 states with Right to Work laws prohibiting forced union…
Eight of the Nine States With the Highest Government Debt-to-Income Ratios Lack Right to Work Protections (Click to download fact sheet) By Stan Greer As many observers of Organized Labor have noted, there has been an enormous shift of power…
Capitol Hill’s Top Recipients of Union-Boss Largesse Vote Consistently For Higher Federal Taxes, More Spending By Stan Greer This year, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation, Americans will fork over $3.0 trillion in federal taxes and an additional $1.5…
An article I recently contributed to The Federalist web site (see the link below) attempts to separate fact from fiction regarding government union officials in the U.S. and how they operate. The article focuses primarily on the issues considered by…
For several years now, the nonpartisan taxpayer watchdog group State Budget Solutions (SBS) has been issuing annual reports on state finances that present “an all-inclusive view of state obligations not conventionally presented but that both lawmakers and taxpayers nonetheless must…
Long after the pro-union monopoly National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was adopted in 1935, even strong supporters of this statute rejected the appropriateness of attempting anything analogous in federal, state, or local government. …
In city after city where government union bosses acquired monopoly power to negotiate public employee, pay benefits, and work rules several decades ago, looming public pension shortfalls represent a grave fiscal threat. Whenever they are compelled by an imminent or…