By Casey Given Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Illinois with fraud for misrepresenting the fiscal health of its public pension system. For years, the Midwestern state had been hoodwinking municipal bond investors into believing that it had been properly funding its public servants’ retirement plans when, in reality, the state has a [...]
Americans for Prosperity is proud to join a coalition of organizations supporting Rep. Phil Gingrey’s H.R. 107, The Federal Employee Accountability Act, which would ban “official time.”
By Casey Given This week is National School Choice Week, a celebration of the efforts to ensure every child in this United States has access to effective education. School Choice Week presents a great opportunity to counter the misinformation spread about the struggle to expand disadvantaged students’ educational opportunities. Here are five myths about the [...]
“The power of a written constitution lies in its words. It is those words that were adopted by the people. When those words speak clearly, it is not up to us to depart from their meaning in favor of our own concept of efficiency, convenience, or facilitation of the functions of government.”- Canning v. NLRB [...]
By Casey Given Defenders of free association support right-to-work laws to protect an employees’ right to not pay dues to a union they disagree with. However, even in right-to-work states, employees who opt out of union membership are usually still exclusively represented by their workplace’s union whether they like it or not. As I explained [...]
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