Year after year, students in Big Labor controlled school systems get farther behind new study documents. Expanding on Terry Moe’s research in his book Special Interest.
State teacher union strength and student achievement, by Johnathan Lott and Lawrence W. Kenny
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Union officials chalked up a staggering 3,633,290 hours of taxpayer-funded union time in 2016, at a cost to taxpayers of over $177 million in payroll costs alone for just that one year. This includes, for example, over $700,000 spent on travel expenses for union bosses in the Social Security Administration.
Union-label Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other New York politicians are feeling the heat. The Albany-based Empire Center for…
Big Labor Spends How Much on Politics? Unlike business and other interest-group political spending, Big Labor’s “in-kind” expenditures on politics…