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Better Job, Wage Gains
It seems to be a good deal for the workers, too. The U.S. unemployment rate is 9.1%. In right-to-work states the average is 7.9% — 8.6% adjusted for population.
Between 1977-08, employment grew 100% in right-to-work states vs. the national average of 71% and 56.5% in non-right-to-work states. That's according to a January study that Ohio University economics professor Richard Vedder did for the Indiana Chamber of Commerce.
In this period, real per capita income in the right-to-work states grew 62.3% vs. the national average of 54.7% and 52.8% for non-right-to-work states.
Vedder has studied right-to-work laws for decades and argues that this success is not a coincidence.
" I've been looking for ways to show that these laws don't really (impact) anything. But I haven't found it yet," Vedder said.
Numbers don't lie.
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