All Posts Tagged With: "public employees"
Government Workers Are America’s New Elite
As a child, I would ask my mother on Mother’s Day or Father’s Day: “Why isn’t there a Children’s Day?” After she stopped laughing, Mom explained: “Every day is Children’s Day.” I didn’t understand the joke then, but now that I’m the father of three children, her answer makes perfect sense. I recalled that exchange [...]
1Jul2008 | Steven Greenhut | 22 comments | ContinuedThe Man Who Ate Hamtramck’s Government
In November 2000 Louis Schimmel swept away the government of Hamtramck, Michigan, and literally took over the city–lock, stock, and barrel. Appointed by Governor John Engler under a 1990 law that allows the state to assume temporary control of a dysfunctional municipality, Schimmel has transformed the finances and the infrastructure of Hamtramck. The result speaks [...]
1Mar2002 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedShameless in California
A year ago October the California legislature and Governor Gray Davis enacted SB645, which empowers unions with monopoly bargaining privileges at California State University and the University of California to extract monthly fees from the paychecks of faculty and staff who want to remain union-free. Every Democrat and two Republicans in the legislature voted in [...]
1Nov2000 | Charles W. Baird | 1 comment | Continued-
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