According to U.S. Commerce Department data released on June 10, last year a record 47.9% of the entire U.S. manufacturing output, measured in current dollars, occurred in states that had prohibited compulsory union dues and fees. (A link to the entire…
In a paper he wrote for the National Institute for Labor Relations Research a decade ago, economist Barry Poulson raised a point that seems obvious, but is generally overlooked in both academic and media analyses of relative living standards in…
While the Great Recession of 2008-2009 undoubtedly changed many things about how Americans live, some longstanding trends seem in retrospect not to have changed at all. One example is the ongoing net migration of vast numbers of people out of…
On Tuesday the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued its initial estimates for total 2013 private-sector, nonfarm employment in the 50 states. The BEA simultaneously released revised estimates for overall state personal income and an array of…