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
HIghlights
From 2015 to 2025, state and local governments’ collective spending soared by 62% (26 percentage points above the CPI), reaching nearly $4.4 trillion a year. Yet Big Labor propagandists insist government is being “starved”!
With President Trump’s sharp rollback of union monopoly bargaining in federal workplaces in effect, federal taxpayers have reportedly been getting better services while saving tens of billions of dollars in payroll costs.
In FY 2025 alone, CTU kingpins poured, by their own admission, over $4.2 million into “political activities and lobbying.”