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The Student Loan Bubble Looks like “Déjà Vu”

Higher education is following the same pattern that housing did in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis. Just like in housing during the previous decade, a student lending “bubble” is now being inflated by heavy federal interventions that could have severe unintended consequences.

Labor, Education & Pensions Legislative Alerts

AFP Leading the Green Jobs Revolution?

June 07, 2012 J,

Yesterday Chairman Issa held oversight hearings examining the Bureau of Labor Statistics absurd methodology for calculating green jobs.  As it turns out, almost anyone can qualify, including: the Salvation Army (reused goods), bus drivers (mass transit), antique dealers (reused goods) and … yes … even oil lobbyists (environmental awareness) are counted as green jobs these [...]

Life in the Obama Economy: The Youngest Generation is Hit the Hardest

May 23, 2012 J

By Nicole Kaeding
The month of May is synonymous with graduations; thousands of college students leaving school and heading out into the work force. This May, due to President Obama’s failed economic policies, the job market is extremely tight for graduates. But yet, the national unemployment rate of 8.1% doesn’t tell the full story. Simply, the younger generation is hit the hardest.

U.S. Senate Refuses to Stand Up to NLRB

April 24, 2012 J

Americans for Prosperity, the nation’s leading economic freedom advocate, today issued the following statement on the U.S. Senate’s job-killing vote allowing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to impose rules that favor union bosses over common sense and job creation. Despite the NLRB’s gross overreach speeding up union elections, Senator Enzi's resolution of disapproval, S. J. Res. 36, would have stopped this “ambush” union elections rule.

Letter of Support: Rep. Rokita’s RAISE Act

April 19, 2012 J

Dear Representative Rokita,

On behalf of more than 2 million Americans for Prosperity activists in all 50 states, I commend you for introducing the Rewarding Achievement and Incentivizing Successful Employees (RAISE) Act, H.R. 4385. Your bill is based on a commonsense principle: workers should be able to receive additional pay for performance recognized by their employers, not held back by collective bargaining contracts negotiated by union bosses.

Unions have a long history of working to represent and protect workers from employment abuses in this country. Yet in recent years the web of special rules negotiated through union contracts has sometimes done more to hold workers back and hurt the economy than it has done to help.

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