Wage Trends Favor Workplace Freedom States
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | December 5th at 05:00 PM |
Average wages in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky were each leapfrogged by multiple workplace freedom states from 2001 to 2011 based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data. Comparing Ohio and its 5 neighboring states to the 22 workplace freedom states – whose ranks Indiana joined in February 2012 – Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana were 3 of only 5 states with wage growth below 30 percent over the course of the decade.
In terms of BLS-calculated wages, slow wage growth resulted in an erosion of the relative advantage in Ohio and neighboring forced-unionism states, where workers can be required to pay a union boss as a condition of employment, versus workplace freedom states. Without adjusting for taxes or cost of living, the statewide average wage in Ohio fell from 7th-highest to 9th-highest.
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Workplace Freedom States Soared While Ohio and Michigan Economies Crashed
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | December 4th at 03:00 PM |
Job creation in Ohio lagged far behind all 22 workplace freedom states from 1991 to 2011, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) records. Without cherry-picking data as union bosses must in order to defend forced unionism, total seasonally adjusted non-farm employment growth shows a huge advantage for residents of right to work states.
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Governor Kasich Continues to Frame Fracking Tax Hike as Targeting “Big Oil”
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | November 30th at 05:00 PM |
Governor John Kasich stood by his proposal to increase severance taxes on oil and natural gas “fracking” in Ohio, framing the plan as a boost for small businesses on the backs of Big Oil during a question and answer session at an Ohio Farm Bureau event.
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“We Are Ohio” Makes the Union Case Against Right to Work
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | November 26th at 12:30 PM |
Union campaign committee We Are Ohio prepared a slogan and talking points against a right to work initiative in Ohio using some of its $700,000 cash on hand at the end of 2011. Nearly a year later, these materials still represent the best arguments union bosses have offered for maintaining Ohio’s status quo.
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Kasich Refuses to Implement Obamacare Exchange in Ohio
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | November 16th at 03:00 PM |
Ohio Governor John Kasich made official his administration’s refusal to create a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) exchange in Ohio, deferring to the federal government. With a November 16 letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Kasich limited the burdens the law commonly referred to as Obamacare will impose on Ohioans.
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NEA Celebrates its Victory in Ohio
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | November 13th at 06:00 PM |
The Ohio Education Association (OEA), Ohio’s largest labor union, spent the past six months promoting progressive candidates and policies and is now celebrating widespread success. Like its parent union the National Education Association (NEA), OEA is a business which relies on bigger government, higher taxes, and politicians who will deliver both. NEA and OEA have been firm allies of U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat identified by | Read More »
Ohio Still Awaits Gov. Kasich’s Obamacare Decisions
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | November 12th at 04:00 PM |
Ohio Governor John Kasich still has not announced official decisions on Obamacare exchange implementation or Medicaid expansion, major factors in the federal Goliath’s reach into the Buckeye State. With President Obama reelected and no chance of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) repeal, choices left to the Republican administration by the 2010 law are more important than ever. In a November 9 column at | Read More »
Echoes of ACORN from Liberal Campaign Company FieldWorks
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | November 5th at 07:00 AM |
Liberal consulting company FieldWorks flagged as potentially fraudulent roughly 200 voter registrations it submitted in Hamilton County, Ohio this fall, FOX News reported on November 3. FOX also reported that charges against three FieldWorks canvassers have been referred to the prosecutor in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and in August a FieldWorks employee gathering Voters First Ohio signatures was indicted on 23 felony charges. Based in D.C., FieldWorks | Read More »
Obama Surrogate Ted Strickland Berates Romney’s “Fake Compassion”
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | November 2nd at 04:00 PM |
During a speech at an Obama for America campaign event in Hilliard on Friday morning, former Oho governor Ted Strickland accused Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney of trying to “fake compassion” for victims of Hurricane Sandy, Fox Nation reported.
A clip of Strickland’s speech recorded by CNN follows.
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ProgressOhio Accuses True The Vote of Conducting Illegal Training
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | November 2nd at 03:00 PM |
ProgressOhio Executive Director Brian Rothenberg was quoted in an October 29 AlterNet story accusing True The Vote (TTV) of conducting illegal poll worker training, continuing a liberal assault on the election integrity group. AlterNet writer Steven Rosenfeld began his story with an assertion that TTV “may be pushing their anti-democratic agenda into illegal territory in Ohio by interfering with that state’s official poll worker training regimen.”
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