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Sunday, August 26, 2012

The Huge Cost of Public Unions

The Huge Cost of Public Unions

Michael Marlow, New York Daily News
With Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate, the conventional wisdom is that the presidential election is now a referendum on the size of government. If so, it’s a national stage for a debate that has already been taking place in state capitols from Albany to Sacramento about the burden of public sector unions.Neither conservatives nor liberals disagree that these unions raise wages and employment for their members (i.e., firefighters, teachers and police). But research I recently completed finds a solid empirical relationship between public sector...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/08/26/the_huge_cost_of_public_unions_288317.html

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