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Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Public Sector Labor Unions – Problems and Solutions for Reform
According to U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 14.5 million Americans belong to a union. 35.3 percent of government employees are unionized. Because these individuals are on the public’s…
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First, Do No Harm: Improving Detroit’s Regulatory Climate
Detroit's rise and fall is now the stuff of legend, serving as a dark cautionary tale for cities everywhere.
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Labor Day: An Opportunity to Reflect on How to Expand Freedom for Public Employees
Today marks the 120th celebration of Labor Day as a federal holiday. While the day’s origins can be found in the organized labor movement…
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Supreme Court Rules In-Home Personal Care Providers Cannot be Compelled to Pay Union Agency Fees
In a 5-4 decision yesterday, the Supreme Court held in Harris v. Quinn that the First Amendment prohibits the collection of agency fees from in-home personal care providers who do…
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Is the Highway Trust Fund About to Hit a Dead End?
By Steven Johnson The Department of Transportation (DOT) released a report this past Tuesday showing that the Highway Trust Fund will run out of money by this August. The…
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Balancing Ride-on-Demand Innovations with Common Sense Consumer Protections
We all can agree that overregulation of an industry tends to chill innovative business strategies and ultimately harm the consumers the regulations were intended to protect. However, in pursuit of…
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Arizona says “Neigh” to Small Businesses
By Audrey Williams If two ride a horse, one must ride behind. But, when the riders are government and small businesses, it’s always the latter who should ride front.
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Raising the Minimum Wage: The Effects on Employment, Businesses, and Consumers
Despite good intentions, recent efforts at the federal, state and local levels to increase the minimum wage pose a serious threat to America’s businesses and to less-experienced and less-educated Americans…
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Wireless Tax Burden Harms US Economy
Since the Federal Communications Commission approved mobile devices for public consumption in 1983, the use of wireless phones has increased by 25 to 35 percent per year. Today, mobile…
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President Obama Doesn’t Know How to Create Jobs, and a Minimum Wage Increase Won’t Help
This appeared on RedState on February 6, 2014. President Obama’s big government philosophy has created an economic environment hostile to job growth and economic prosperity. He says…
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Minimum Wages: Few Benefits, Many Consequences
President Obama’s recent State of the Union address was the culmination of months of advocacy from Democrats and activists for a higher minimum wage. The President proposed a raise to…
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The Impacts of Raising the Minimum Wage
Over the past year, fast food and retail workers around America have staged strikes to demand a minimum wage as high as $15 per hour. These strikes helped reignite the…