Posts Tagged ‘Rhode Island’
 Opportunities For the ‘Middle-Educated’ and the College-Educated  Â
NILRR Fact Sheet — College-Educated and ‘Middle-Educated’ Employee web Census Bureau Data Show That Non-Holders, Holders of Bachelor’s Degrees Are Flocking to Right to Work States By Stan Greer As a number of workforce analysts have noted, one way in which Americans in their teens and their twenties have attempted to shield themselves from the…
Read MoreFACT SHEET: Working-Age Resident Deficit
Working-Age Resident Deficit Compulsory-Union-Dues States’ Total Population Aged 35-54 Fell by Roughly Two Million from 2003 to 2013 By Stan Greer Because, as a group, they already have plenty of work experience, but are still able to put in a lot of hours on the job, the 84.2 million Americans who were aged 35-54 in…
Read MoreAn End to Forced Unionization?
Kevin Mooney reviews the connidition of home child care providers and the litigation fighting for freedom on behalf of these workers. The full story appears on AmericanThinker.com. Without a steady stream of water and electricity, child-care service providers who typically operate out of their own homes could go out of business. Yet, hundreds of Rhode…
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Bus company cuts ties with union in Spring Grove Hanover (PA) Evening Sun, March 14, 2014 More than half the drivers of Teamsters Local 776 signed a petition asking that they no longer be represented by the union, according to Aaron Solem, legal counsel for drivers circulating the petition. That, he said, is an acceptable…
Read MoreForced-Unionism Connecticut and Massachusetts Are Hardly Economic Role Models
Why do we care what CNBC thinks about R.I.? Providence-based public radio political analyst Scott MacKay is sneering at the latest Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC) analysis of business climates in the 50 states, which ranks Rhode Island dead last. (See the link above.) MacKay suggests that, since all five of the top-ranking…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Encumber Citizens With More Debt as Well as Higher Taxes
Total Debt as a Share of Annual Personal Income 50% Higher Than in Right to Work States (Click here todownloadFact Sheet) As many observers of Organized Labor have noted, there has been an enormous shift of power within union officialdom over the past few decades. As recently as 1980, the year Ronald Reagan was elected…
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