‘Companies Are Cutting . . . Jobs in Michigan’
Since Big Labor-backed legislation repealing Right to Work protections for employees went into effect in early 2024, the state has gone from adding jobs to losing them.
Cold Hard Facts on Right to Work Economic Performance
Writing in D Magazine, Susan Arledge uses the facts to make the case for Right to Work:
The U.S. Bureau of Economic data shows that between 1990 and 2010, right-to-work states experienced much higher median economic performance with:
- Employment growth of 25.9 percent for right-to-work states vs. 7.9 percent for all other states
- Per capita income growth of 117.8 percent vs. 104.3 percent
- Population growth of 29 percent vs. 23.6 percent
- Manufacturing employment growth of 84.0 percent vs.19.4 percent
- Manufacturing wage per worker growth of 108.7 percent vs. 96.1 percent
Thus, on every economic dimension examined above, right-to-work states experienced significantly greater economic performance than non-right-to-work states.
