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U.S. Supreme Court Precedents Won by Right-to-Work Group
Source: National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc.
Country: United States

A listing of the U.S. Supreme Court cases won by the National Right to Work Foundation. (7/99)

Paycheck Protection Schemes
Source: National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc.
Country: United States

NRTW says that "paycheck protection" doesn't go far enough for employees seeking refunds of union dues used for politics. (7/99)

Public education and public health
Source: Physicians for Civil Defense
Author: Dr. Jane M. Orient
Country: United States

An examination of the growth of regulation and executive power in the area of "public" health. (7/99)

Regulation and life
Source: Physicians for Civil Defense
Country: United States
E-mail: pcd@free-market.net

The idea of regulation is not to provide balance and protection, but to ration, restrict and preserve power. (3/98)

The high risk of zero-risk policy
Source: Doctors for Disaster Preparedness
Author: Dr. Jane M. Orient
Country: United States

Government attempts to regulate away all risk cause injury and cost lives. (12/92)

Distribution and employment impacts of raising the minimum wage
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Author: Kenneth A.Couch
Country: United States

"[M]y calculations indicate that we would expect the loss of 145,000 to 436,000 teenage jobs from raising the minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.15. From a base of 15.5 million teens in the U.S. in May of 1998 with slightly over 7 million employed, reductions of this magnitude are certainly meaningful, representing 2% to 6% of employment of that group." (2/19/99)

Minimum wage redux
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Doug Bandow
Country: United States

"No serious economist doubts that the minimum wage destroys jobs. The only question is how many." (11/1/99)

A review of 'Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage'
Source: Cato Journal
Country: United States

"This volume ... exudes hubris. The myth, which the authors promise to debunk, is that increases in the minimum wage have negative employment effects. ... Their book probes aspects of intellectual history, propounds some novel theoretical and methodological ideas, lectures its readers on technical aspects of econometrics, and prescribes public policy, despite frequent disclaimers." (1996)

Labor's massive political machine
Source: National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Country: United States

A look at labor's use of forced union dues in funding political campaigns. (1/00)

OSHA's retreat does not end the threat to working at home
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: D. Mark Wilson
Country: United States

The withdrawal of OSHA's at-home work compliance does not end OSHA's ability to reach into workers' homes. (1/10/00)

Minimum wage fact sheet
Source: Employment Policy Foundation
Country: United States

The Employment Policy Foundation rebuts claims made by the AFL-CIO regarding the minimum wage. (11/8/99)

On, my aching back: The feds sock it to us again
Source: Heartland Institute/Intellectual Ammo
Author: Murray Weidenbaum
Country: United States

OSHA has found a new calling: Setting broad standards to battle a vaguely defined category of "muscular-skeletal disorders." (5/00)

Regulations hamper small urban businesses
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

"In major American cities, regulatory barriers thwart new small business development, especially affecting those low-income groups most needing help -- minorities, new immigrants and single parents." (02/14/01)

Occupational licensing on the rise
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

"Occupational licensing restricts the freedom of consumers or employers ... The percentage of workers covered by either state or local licenses is rising as the demand for regulated services grows and more occupations are regulated." (01/19/01)

Postal reform repository
Source: ATR
City: Washington, State: DC, Country: United States

A "repository of materials ... pertaining to postal reform." Most are only available in Adobe PDF format. Topics include Post Office Smuggling, Post Office Socialism and Postal Fraud ... as well as press releases and editorials on the overall subject. (03/14/01)

Libertarian solutions: the appearance police, part II: are there limits to zoning laws?
Source: LP News/Ideas on Liberty
Author: James D. Saltzman
Country: United States
E-mail: George.Getz@hq.lp.org

Zoning boards have become even more dictatorial than ever, now claiming authority over the appearance of property you own. Second of a two-part series. (03/01)

Libertarian solutions: the 'reincarnated seagull rule' and other zoning law outrages
Source: LP News/Ideas on Liberty
Author: James D. Saltzman
Country: United States
E-mail: George.Getz@hq.lp.org

"The belief that private property rights compromise a public interest in beautification has generated a host of legal procedures allowing the government to veto an owner's wishes for the appearance of his property." (02/01)

Protecting the consumer: yes, private 'regulation' does work
Source: LP News
Author: Peter Orvetti
Country: United States

"Who's minding the store? That's the question many Americans have about deregulation of business. Companies do not always act in the interest of consumers, critics say, and if government regulation is eliminated, cutthroat companies will gain control of the marketplace and rip people off." Orvetti addresses these claims. (02/00)

Zoning alternatives give power to people, not to bureaucrats
Source: LP News
Author: Peter Orvetti
Country: United States

"'Good fences make good neighbors,' Robert Frost wrote. But do zoning regulations accomplish the same thing?" Orvetti explains how zoning actually harms communities, and how market measures can better address the concerns zoning is supposed to cure. (03/00)

Libertarian solutions: how government licensing laws can protect consumers to death
Source: LP News
Author: Mary J. Ruwart
Country: United States

"Do government licensing laws really protect us from unscrupulous business people? Surprisingly, Sidney Carroll and Robert Gaston found that licensing laws actually hurt us. They found that states with the most rigorous licensing laws for electricians, dentists, and optometrists have the greatest incidence of accidental electrocutions, poor dental hygiene, and blindness respectively!" (05/99)

Living wage movement spreads
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

"Living wage ordinances provide questionable benefits to low-wage workers... These ordinances create disincentives for employees to improve their education and skills and adversely affect nonprofit organizations." (08/02/01)

Labor law unfair to working mothers
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

An outmoded law prevents working mothers from taking time off in lieu of overtime pay. (08/23/01)

Where we go from here
Source: Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation
Author: Paul Beckner
Country: United States
E-mail: cse@cse.org

"Terrorists may have attacked our buildings and destroyed our property, but they cannot extinguish the ingenuity and spirit that built our nation." Paul Beckner makes a case for keeping the economy strong by further deregulation. (09/20/2001)

Protecting workers
Source: Strike the Root
Author: Paul Hull
Country: United States

"Government Labor Depts. actually destroy more economic activity than they facilitate, and should be destroyed themselves."(11/30/01)

Do Americans still value freedom?
Source: Institute for Health Freedom
Author: Edward L. Hudgins
Country: United States

"Government regulates what goods and services entrepreneurs can offer consumers, and restricts consumer freedom to buy many goods from other countries. Politicians currently are trying to restrict or ban what we can smoke, where we can use our cell phones. ... How is it that the people of a country dedicated to freedom put up with such restrictions from political elites?" (07/04/01)

Parking by ear
Source: Strike the Root
Author: Paul Hein
Country: United States

"Handicapped parking is not in the same category as terrorist attacks, but nonetheless worth thinking about. Most of us will encounter handicapped parking spaces more often than we’ll come up against suicidal killers, and handicapped parking is an excellent example of how government operates at the ordinary hum-drum level of things." (01/14/02)

Private law III
Source: anti-state.com
Author: Bob Murphy
Country: United States

Bob Murphy's third installment in his fantastic theoretical system of voluntary market law.

Minimum wage hikes boosted ranks of below-minimum-wage workers
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

"[T]he last two minimum wage increases in 1997-98 resulted in the percentage of workers earning less than the minimum rising from 2.9 percent in 1996 to 6.2 percent in 1998 -- even as overall unemployment fell from 5.4 percent to 4.5 percent." (11/13/01)

Letter to the Bush administration on broadband deployment
Source: Citizens for a Sound Economy
Country: United States

"As you know, the Information Technology (IT) sector of the economy has experienced sharper and more extended declines over the past year than the economy as a whole. While lower interest rates and tax cuts will help restore growth in this sector, we believe that excessive and unwise telecommunications regulation is playing a significant role in the IT sector’s decline." (12/04/01)

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