Gov. Roy Cooper’s official Twitter account posted earlier today that the budget “pays teachers less than state employees.” Teachers make on average $53,975 per year. State employees earn on average…
Jason Richwine and Andrew Biggs take on Economic Policy Institute claims that the nation’s public-school teachers were underpaid by a record 21.4 percent in 2018. They write, To measure the…
Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner shares some interesting statistics about the media business. In the latest sign that Washington operates in an alternate economy, journalism jobs around the country…
Rich Karlgaard of Forbes puts the college-for-everyone campaign in perspective. A FEW WEEKS AGO I spoke to a trade group of construction company CEOs and CFOs. I thought their top…
If this data were reversed, liberal feminists would be squawking with their usual discrimination mantra and demands for congressional action to address the anti-woman agenda. Last year, women held about…
Kent Osband explores the gap between public- and private-sector workers in the latest National Review: The private sector is now rethinking its unrealistic optimism. It has to, since its asset…
You?ll also have to wait a while to read the full-length online version of Jeff Jacoby?s Commentary article, ?What Public-Sector Unions Have Wrought.? But I can offer a little snippet,…
USA Today reports on the new gender gap in earnings for the under-30 age group. Contrary to the drumbeat of oppression preached by NOW and like-minded organizations, it is men…
Saturday’s Wall Street Journal contained an editorial Getting Into Harvard that repeats one of the most often heard of all educational statistics — that people who have college degrees earn…
George, we’ve heard for years that the average college graduate has a much greater lifetime earning potential than the average non-graduate. If that’s true, are people mistaking a correlation for…
USA Today examines the question, “What do employers do when their workers change their gender?” Well, my first thought is, if he becomes a she, you cut her pay, and…
Worth sharing: Paul Chesser sent the following link with the subject line “My wife is unqualified and woefully underpaid” Apparently, she is.