A National Institute for Labor Relations Research analysis of U.S. Census Bureau (BOC) data shows that the mean cost of living-adjusted, after-tax household income in Right to Work states in 2019 was $64,572, roughly $4,300 higher than the forced-dues state average.
In 2019, 50.5% of Americans lived in one of the 27 Right to Work states, and, fortunately for them, 70.7% of all new single-unit housing authorizations occurred in such states. image: Ft. Orange Funding, L.L.C. The U.S. Census Bureau (BOC)…
Because of the passage of new state Right to Work laws as well as the massive out-migration of families with school-aged children from compulsory-unionism states, teacher union czarina Randi Weingarten’s forced-dues empire is in jeopardy. Photo: Aaron Bernstein/Getty Images Over…
Officials and militant activists of the three million-member National Education Association (NEA), America’s biggest teacher union, are currently gathered in Orlando, Fla., for their annual convention and representative assembly. Throughout the next few days, until the event finally concludes on…
According to a news report filed early this week for National Public Radio affiliates in Missouri (see the link below for more information), Missouri House of Representatives Speaker John Diehl (R-Town and Country) will hold a floor vote this week,…
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…
As recently as 2000, the year of the extremely close and contentious presidential contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore, 36.4%, or barely more than a third, of all private-sector employees in the U.S. held a job located in…
This weekend teacher union officials in Washington, D.C., and in states where government-sector forced union dues are now permissible, will likely be worrying about what the U.S. Supreme Court will do in the Harris v. Quinn case, in which a…
(Source: March 2011 NRTWC Newsletter) Millions Have 'Voted With Their Feet' For Better Opportunities For a combination of reasons, nationwide the number of young adults aged 25-34 is growing far more slowly than is the number of Americans aged 55 and older. In 1999, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 37.94 million people aged 25-34 living in the U.S. By 2009, there were 41.57 million people nationwide in that age bracket. That's a 9.6% increase. Over the same decade, the number of Americans aged 55 and older soared from 57.93 million to 74.36 million, a whopping 28.4% increase! The nationwide decline in young employees' population share, relative to that of Americans nearing or in their retirement years, is obviously an impediment to economic growth. Eleven Non-Right to Work States Suffered Young-Adult Population Declines