According to Neal Asbury, chief executive of The Legacy Companies and NewsMax contributor: “If there is still any doubt that the policies of right-to-work states bring enormous benefits for the economy and workers, a story in the Wall Street Journal…
More ‘Detroits’ Loom Unless Union Special Privileges Are Curtailed (click to download newsletter) On December 3, Detroit, at one time a magnet for ambitious job seekers…
Many parties share the blame for the fiscal debacle that led to Detroit’s Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing this July, which this Tuesday was approved, over union bosses’ loud and angry objects, by a federal judge. The primary culprits are, without…
Yesterday U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes rejected government union lawyers’ claims that Detroit, despite its enormous and manifestly unsustainable debt burden, isn’t really bankrupt. As Bill McMorris reported for the Washington Free Beacon in the news account linked below: .
A stunning new actuary report on Detroit’s pension implosion has revealed that Detroit trustees doled out nearly $2 billion in undisclosed holiday “bonuses” to Detroit government workers and retirees negotiated by the city and its unions, Breitbart reports.
Why is Detroit the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy? Is the Motor City’s horrendous fiscal plight primarily a result of its own peculiar history and other special circumstances? Or are dozens, if not scores, of other…
The Washington Examiner finds there are 19 cities with larger government worker to population ratios than Detroit where city workers accounted for the largest employer: Detroit declared bankruptcy due in no small part to $3 billion in unfunded public employee…
Yesterday, Detroit, once a magnet for ambitious job seekers across the country, became the largest U.S. city ever to file for bankruptcy. As Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes discusses in the commentary linked below, a key factor in the Motor…