Benefit Costs Sunk Benton Harbor's Finances

“The real backbreaker is the long-term costs — a pension that is underfunded, the health care package that is getting more expensive — and the city is on the hook for all of it" (former Mackinac Center Director of Labor Policy Paul Kersey)....more

Do We Let Unions Bankrupt Governments?

What the fight over Public Act 4 is really all about. Government unions remain as a permanent, taxpayer-funded lobby for big government. The unions claim that PA 4 is an affront to democratic self government, but their protests ring false