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CDA Research Papers

October 13, 2009
Time for Congress to Work Under the Same Rules as the Private Sector
By James Sherk and Ryan O'Donnell
Backgrounder #2326


September 25, 2009
The Baucus Individual Health Insurance Mandate: Taxing Low-Income and Moderate-Income Workers
By Robert A. Book, Ph.D., Guinevere Nell, and Paul L. Winfree
Backgrounder #2325


September 04, 2009
Why Organized Labor Supports Government Health Care
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2605


August 31, 2009
Why Job Creation Matters More than Job Losses
By James Sherk
Backgrounder #2310


August 31, 2009
Why Job Creation Matters More than Job Losses
By James Sherk
Backgrounder #2310


August 06, 2009
Obama's Plan to "Create or Save" Jobs: A Promise Unfulfilled
By James Sherk and Rea S. Hederman, Jr.
Backgrounder #2305


July 23, 2009
Postpone Minimum Wage Increase until Low-skilled Unemployment Falls
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2557


July 08, 2009
Closing Car Dealerships: A Matter of Economics, Not Politics
By James Sherk and James L. Gattuso
Backgrounder #2296


June 15, 2009
Organized Labor Concedes: Employer Violations Rare in Secret Ballot Elections
By James Sherk
Backgrounder #2287


June 04, 2009
RAISE Act Lifts Pay Cap on 8 Million American Workers
By James Sherk and Ryan O'Donnell
Backgrounder #2270


May 28, 2009
How the RESPECT Act Hurts Companies and Employees Alike
By James Sherk and Ryan O’Donnell
Backgrounder #2277


May 21, 2009
What Unions Do: How Labor Unions Affect Jobs and the Economy
By James Sherk
Backgrounder #2275


May 13, 2009
Restricting H-1B Visas Is Bad for Business and the Economy
By James Sherk and Diem Nguyen
WebMemo #2440


May 05, 2009
Job Corps: An Unfailing Record of Failure
By David B. Muhlhausen, Ph.D.
WebMemo #2423


May 04, 2009
Union Accountability Reversal Breaks Obama’s Transparency Pledge
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2421


March 31, 2009
Labor Union Snap Elections Deprive Employees of Informed Choice
By James Sherk and Ryan O’Donnell
WebMemo #2371


March 12, 2009
EFCA Authorizes Government Control of 4 Million Small Businesses
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2341


March 11, 2009
EFCA: High-Pressure Spin Selling and Creative Organizing for Labor Unions
By James Sherk and Ryan O’Donnell
WebMemo #2335


March 10, 2009
Card Check Creates Government-Run Workplaces
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2334


February 03, 2009
Reform Collective Bargaining to Enable Hard Working Americans to Get Ahead
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2265


January 28, 2009
Davis-Bacon Wage Provisions Depress the Economy
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2253


January 16, 2009
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act: The Heritage Foundation 2009 Labor Boot Camp
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2216


January 16, 2009
Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act: The Heritage Foundation 2009 Labor Boot Camp
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2215


January 16, 2009
The RESPECT Act: The Heritage Foundation 2009 Labor Boot Camp
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2214


January 16, 2009
Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act: The Heritage Foundation 2009 Labor Boot Camp
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2213


January 16, 2009
The Paycheck Fairness Act: The Heritage Foundation 2009 Labor Boot Camp
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2212


January 15, 2009
Extended Unemployment Insurance Benefits: The Heritage Foundation 2009 Labor Boot Camp
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2211


January 15, 2009
Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA): The Heritage Foundation 2009 Labor Boot Camp
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2210


January 15, 2009
Extension of the Davis-Bacon Act: The Heritage Foundation 2009 Labor Boot Camp
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2209


January 15, 2009
Mandatory Paid Sick Leave: The Heritage Foundation 2009 Labor Boot Camp
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2208


January 15, 2009
Ban on the Permanent Replacement of Strikers: The Heritage Foundation 2009 Labor Boot Camp
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2207


January 08, 2009
Key Questions for Hilda Solis, Nominee for Secretary of Labor
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2196


January 07, 2009
Mandatory Paid Sick Leave Need Not Cut Workers' Pay
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2189


January 06, 2009
Rising Unemployment: Caused by Less New Job Creation, Not by More Layoffs
By James Sherk
Backgrounder #2223


December 08, 2008
UAW Workers Actually Cost the Big Three Automakers $70 an Hour
By James Sherk
WebMemo #2162


November 18, 2008
Extended Unemployment Insurance--No Economic Stimulus
By James Sherk and Karen A. Campbell, Ph.D.
Center for Data Analysis Report #08-13


September 16, 2008
Free-Market Philanthropy: The Social Aspect of Entrepreneurship
By Guinevere Nell, James Sherk, and Paul L. Winfree
Center for Data Analysis Report #08-07


September 02, 2008
Job-to-Job Transitions: More Mobility and Security in the Workforce
By James Sherk
Center for Data Analysis Report #08-06


June 17, 2008
A Good Job Is Not So Hard to Find
By James Sherk
Center for Data Analysis Report #08-04


May 12, 2008
The Economic Costs of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Legislation
By William W. Beach, David W. Kreutzer, Ph.D., Ben Lieberman, and Nicolas D. Loris
Center for Data Analysis Report #08-02


April 30, 2008
More H-1B Visas, More American Jobs, A Better Economy
By James Sherk and Guinevere Nell
Center for Data Analysis Report #08-01


August 28, 2007
Use and Abuse of the Family and Medical Leave Act: What Workers and Employers Say
By James Sherk
Special Report #16


June 26, 2007
A Bureaucratic Nightmare: The Senate's Temporary Guest Worker Program
By James Sherk
WebMemo #1525


June 04, 2007
Surety Bonds: A Better Solution Than Burdensome Workplace Immigration Enforcement
By James Sherk and William W. Beach
WebMemo #1482


June 01, 2007
The Senate's Workplace Immigration Enforcement Proposal: Too Much Federal Meddling
By Wes Dyck, William W. Beach, and James Sherk
WebMemo #1480


May 15, 2007
Congress Should Consider Alternatives to Mandatory Paid Sick Leave
By James Sherk
WebMemo #1457


May 10, 2007
Mandatory Paid Sick Leave Invites Misuse That Harms Co-Workers and Customers
By James Sherk
WebMemo #1450


April 23, 2007
How the Employee Free Choice Act Takes Away Workers' Rights
By James Sherk and Paul Kersey
Backgrounder #2027


March 05, 2007
Binding Arbitration: A Bad Deal for Workers
By Paul Kersey and James Sherk
WebMemo #1383


March 01, 2007
Interest Arbitration: Risky for Unions and Employers
By Paul Kersey and James Sherk
WebMemo #1378


January 23, 2007
Who Earns the Minimum Wage? Suburban Teenagers, Not Single Parents
By James Sherk and Rea S. Hederman, Jr.
WebMemo #1320


January 08, 2007
Raising the Minimum Wage Will Not Reduce Poverty
By James Sherk
Backgrounder #1994


January 02, 2007
Minimum Wage Hikes Hurt Unskilled and Disadvantaged Workers' Job Prospects
By James Sherk
WebMemo #1294


October 16, 2006
Shared Prosperity: Debunking Pessimistic Claims About Wages, Profits, and Wealth
By James Sherk
Backgrounder #1978


July 28, 2006
Minimum Wage Workers' Incomes Rise When the Minimum Wage Does Not
By James Sherk
WebMemo #1181


July 06, 2004
In the Dark on Job Training: Federal Job-Training Programs Have a Record of Failure
By David Muhlhausen, Ph.D., and Paul Kersey
Backgrounder #1774


Featured Data & Charts

Chart 3: Initial Jobless Claims


Chart 1: Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index Change
Chart 2: Daily Yield Spread, Moody's Aaa and baa Rated Corporate Bonds
Chart 4: Percent of Labor Force Long-Term Unemployed

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The U.S. Economic Outlook
A PowerPoint presentation by William Beach on the implications of mounting federal debt for the debt paying generation. Total debt is expected to grow from $5.8 trillion in 2008 to $11 trillion by 2019. That is 41% of GDP in 2008 becoming 82% of GDP by 2019. A Tsunami of debt from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid will push total debt to 320% of GDP in 2050 and 750% in 2083. In 2019, Interest payments alone on the debt will be $100 billion more than president Obama projects to spend on the whole Department of Defense. (PowerPoint)

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