US law on wages for public works
Unions take credit for the progress of the free market while promoting policies that harm workers and stifle mutual exchange. Though unions claim to champion the worker, they further exacerbate…
Budget, Taxation, and the Economy Introduction North Carolina’s strong fiscal position at the start of the COVID-19 crisis was a combination of planning and providence. Since 2011, the Republican-led General…
As part of the US-Mexico trade deal that was announced last week, the Trump administration argued for and won a $16 per hour minimum wage for auto and auto parts…
Today’s progressives would prefer not to talk about it, but it’s a fact that many of the policies that progressives promoted during the first half of the 20th century were…
If a politically active corporate CEO hurts his company’s bottom line, shareholders might have to turn to the courts to make up for their losses. It’s an idea Jon Pritchett…
Steven Hayward‘s review of the book Illiberal Reformers in the latest print edition of National Review features the following observation, which should give pause to those on the political left…
George Leef shares with Forbes readers interesting insights about the Davis-Bacon Act. In 1931, Republican Congressman Robert Bacon (NY) teamed up with Republican Senator James Davis (PA) to push through…
Unionized construction has been in decline for many decades, chiefly because of the efficiency-killing work rules that the unions demand. For that reason, non-union construction now has most of the…
One of Obama’s stock defenses of more government “stimulus” spending is that we’ll get both better education and more jobs if we spend more money to fix up school buildings.…
Do we really need the feds to spend billions on “infrastructure” projects? You might think from the breezy rhetoric that the country has been forgetting to take care of its…
In today’s Freeman column, Richard Fulmer makes the timely observation that just because government spending projects are called “infrastructure” doesn’t mean that they are good uses of resources. A point…
In this column, Sheldon Richman drives a stake through the heart of Obama’s demagoguery about the need for “shared sacrifice” in dealing with out debt crisis. When Obama talks about…