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Michigan Lawmakers Propose Repeal of State Prevailing-Wage Laws
Opinion -Michigan lawmakers are proposing to remove restrictions on how state government agencies may partner with private businesses on capital infrastructure projects. -
EPA Resists Court Order Requiring Assessment of Job Losses
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A federal judge has ruled the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is required by law to determine how many coal mining and coal power plant jobs its emissions regulations have eliminated. -
Missouri Residents Sue Over Unions’ Right-to-Work Repeal Effort
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Labor unions in Missouri are collecting signatures to place a referendum question before voters in 2018, seeking to repeal the state’s newly enacted right-to-work (RTW) law. -
Steve Mnuchin is Wrong About the Unemployment Rate, Just Like Most People
Opinion -Editorial -Freedom shouldn't mean, as Janis Joplin put it, "having nothing left to lose." Freedom should mean that the goodness of decisions such as choosing to work are rewarded. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Missouri Passing Right-to-Work Bill
Opinion -“More lawmakers, all across the nation, are waking up to the economic and social benefits of right to work, and Missouri is just the latest state to board the worker freedom train.” - Jesse Hathaway -
Even With Trump’s Support, U.S. Labor Is Singing the Blues
Opinion -Editorial -The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its annual report on union membership last week, and the numbers are not favorable for the U.S. labor movement. -
Wisconsin Lawmaker Proposes Prevailing-Wage Repeal
Opinion -budget-tax-news -A Wisconsin lawmaker has announced he plans to introduce a bill that would remove restrictions on how state government agencies may partner with private businesses on capital infrastructure projects. -
Kentucky Becomes 27th Right-to-Work State
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) signed into law a bill allowing workers to opt out of union membership, removing requirements that workers join a union as a condition of employment. -
Federal Lawmaker Starts Work on Trump Childcare Tax Incentive Plan
Opinion -budget-tax-news -A federal lawmaker announced plans to collaborate with the president’s daughter to use federal tax policy to encourage parents to return to work and place their children in daycare centers. -
Right-to-Work Bill Proposed in New Hampshire
Opinion -budget-tax-news -New Hampshire legislators are considering a bill that would allow workers to opt out of union membership, freeing them from being forced to join a union as a condition of employment. -
WI Lawmakers Include Occupational Licensing Reform in 2017 To-Do List
Opinion -budget-tax-news -A group of Wisconsin state lawmakers is proposing to reform the state’s laws on occupational licensing when they return to work in 2017. -
Alaska Hikes Occupational Licensing Fees
Opinion -budget-tax-news -A state government agency tasked with ensuring “competent, professional and regulated commercial services are available to Alaska consumers” is increasing the cost of obtaining government permission to work in the state. -
Missouri Legislator Plans to Offer Right-to-Work Bill
Opinion -budget-tax-news -A Missouri state legislator is planning to introduce a bill allowing workers to opt out of union membership, removing requirements that workers join a union as a condition of employment. -
Right-to-Work on the Agenda for Kentucky Gov. Bevin
Opinion -budget-tax-news -At a speech in Bowling Green, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) announced plans to work with lawmakers to pass right-to-work legislation during the 2017 legislative session, after neighboring West Virginia enacted a right-to-work law in 2016. -
Michigan Lawmaker Proposes ‘Workers’ Choice’ Labor Reform Bill
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Michigan lawmakers are considering removing restrictions preventing government employees from representing themselves in negotiations with their employers, freeing labor unions from the responsibility of providing services to individuals. -
Alabama Law Drives Midwives, Patients Underground
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Alabama mothers who want to give birth at home with a midwife turn to the state's black market. -
Idaho Attorney General Defends Right-to-Work Law in Court
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Idaho’s chief legal officer is asking a federal judge to dismiss a labor union’s lawsuit challenging the state’s right-to-work law, citing the recent dismissal of a similar case in Wisconsin. -
Try Real Reform with the Common Sense Health Care Tax Policy
Opinion -Most Republican and libertarian plans to repeal and replace Obamacare focus on focus on health savings accounts (HSAs). Dr. Roger Beauchamp says Americans should go a step further with 'health financing accounts' (HFAs). -
Study: Rising Health Care Costs Drive Increases in Wage Inequality
Opinion -health-care-news -Increasing health care costs skew income analyses for ordinary earners. -
States Challenge Obama Administration’s ‘Overtime Rule’
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Attorneys general from 21 states are challenging a new regulation issued by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). -
State Bureaucracy Creates Nurse Licensing Gridlock in California
Opinion -health-care-news -California's prospective nurses would get to work sooner if the state would let them. -
Virginia Voters to Consider Worker-Freedom Constitutional Amendment
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Voters in Virginia will consider a ballot question in November asking for approval of a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution that would protect the state’s right-to-work law. -
States Consider Authorizing Dental Therapy to Expand Access
Opinion -health-care-news -Dental therapists practice in more than 50 countries, yet all but four states prevent these oral care equivalent of physician assistants from treating patients. -
Court Considers Fate of West Virginia Right-to-Work Law
Opinion -budget-tax-news -A West Virginia county judge is considering a lawsuit that alleges the state’s right-to-work law violates labor unions’ legal entitlement to money earned by workers.