Posts Tagged ‘Cost of Living’
The Fourteen Least-Affordable States All Lack Right To Work Protections
The correlation between forced-unionism status and a higher cost of living is robust. Not one of the 14 highest-cost states in 2019 has a Right to Work law. But 13 of the 15 lowest cost-of-living states protect employees’ Right to Work.
There is a compelling case to be made that compulsory unionism actually fosters a higher cost of living.
Read MorePoverty Higher in Forced-Dues States
A recent U.S. Census Bureau (BOC) report furnishes data on the average share of residents living in poverty in each of the 50 states from 2016-18. BOC supplemental poverty measure…
Read MoreForced-Dues State Households Have Less Real Income
Higher Costs for Consumers Translate Into Lower Living Standards for Employees and Everyone Else [download fact sheet here] In California, the erstwhile Golden State, K-12 educators obviously recognize that they…
Read MorePer Capita Income Higher in Right To Work States
Cost of Living-Adjusted, After-Tax Income Per Capita More Than $2,400 Higher in Right to Work States Than in Forced-Unionism States An ever-growing mountain of scholarly research and countless Americans’ personal…
Read MoreFourteen Least-Affordable States Are All Forced-Unionism
Early last week, the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC), a state government agency, published its latest set of state comparative cost-of-living indices. Â (See the link below.)…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Far More Costly to Live in
Recently the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC), a state government agency, published its latest set of state comparative cost-of-living indices.  (See the link below. Because late 2015…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Were on Average 22% More Costly to Live in Than Right to Work States in 2014
Recently the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) published its latest set of comparative cost-of-living indices for the 50 states.  (See the link below.) MERIC’s new indices…
Read MoreDo Benefiting From a Lower Cost of Living and Having More Kids Make You a ‘Free Rider’?
Last year, according to data reported in June by the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 4.62 children aged 17 and under for every 10 adults aged 25-64 living in the…
Read MoreAFL-CIO-Backed Study Shows Minimum-Wage Earners, Along With Almost Everybody Else, Are Better Off in Right to Work States
When they are making propagandistic economic arguments against Right to Work laws and legislation, AFL-CIO union officials nd their allies routinely pretend either that there is no difference whatsoever between…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Were on Average 21% More Costly to Live in Than Right to Work States in 2013
Recently the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) published its latest set of comparative cost-of-living indices for the 50 states. Â (See the link below.) Â MERIC’s new indices…
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