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Twitter And The Real Economy Of Jobs Four times a year, the nonpartisan Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) calculates and publishes indices ranking each of the 50 states with regard to their cost of living relative to the…
Where the Middle Class Can’t Afford to Live– Emily Badger, The Atlantic What’s the reason for the massive and ongoing net out-migration of residents from forced-unionism states such as California, New York, and New Jersey? From April 1, 2010 to…
New report highlights strengthof Tennessee’s auto sector | Nooga.com Drive!Moving Tennessee’s Automotive Sector Up the Value Chain… Late last week, Tennessee news outlets such as the Chattanooga-based web service Nooga.com (see the first link above) reported on a new…
SHABAZZ:Lake County liberal unlikely to derail right-to-work law In a column this week (see the link above), Indiana attorney and publisher Abdul Hakim Shabazz dissects an ongoing lawsuit brought by the bosses of suburban Chicago-based Local 150 of the International…
Total full-time and part-time employment by industry (SA25, SA25N) Compensation of employees by industry (SA06, SA06N) Today the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued its initial estimates for total 2012 private-sector, nonfarm employment in the 50 states.…
Twitter And The Real Economy Of Jobs Four times a year, the nonpartisan Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) calculates and publishes indices ranking each of the 50 states with regard to their cost of living relative to the…
Union Nonmembers Are’Made Worse Off’ Monopolistic Unionism Hurts Talented Employees Economically, and Top Union Officials Seem Aware of That (Click to download Fact Sheet) By Stan Greer Because the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) empowers union bosses to represent workers…
Scranton police/fire unions get $21M judgment against city; may … Scranton, a modest-sized city of roughly 76,000, but nevertheless the largest in Northeastern Pennsylvania, has been struggling for decades. Scranton’s current population is barely half of what it was at the…
Why Should the Government Prevent Union Members from Earning RAISEs? Most Americans who aren’t close observers of labor-management relations assume that, whatever other faults they may have, union officials can at least be counted upon to fight consistently for higher…