Backgrounder posted September 1, 2010 by James Sherk
The New Face of the Union Movement: Government Employees
Abstract: Unions have been a familiar part of American working life for more than 70 years. Less familiar is the state of the union movement today: More union members now work for the government than for private employers. The above-market salaries and benefits that government employees receive are paid for by taxpayers. So, the union movement that began as a campaign to…
Lecture posted June 24, 1998 by Stephan Thernstrom, Fred Siegel, Robert Woodson
The Kerner Commission Report
This lecture was held at The Heritage Foundation on March
13, 1998.
Welcome to our
panel discussion on the 30th anniversary of the publication of the
Kerner Commission Report.
The Heritage Foundation has a number of goals. One is to roll
back the liberal welfare state. A prerequisite to understanding
what happened to create the liberal welfare state, and…