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Monthly Archives: February 2018

Fact Check: Which Policy Wonks Should You Trust on Prevailing Wage?

It is time to assess studies forecasting what would happen if Indiana repealed its prevailing wage law. A Ph.D. economist who has studied prevailing wage for 24 years was 100% accurate. A partisan ideologue was only 14% correct. Trust the expert, not the rhetoric. In July 2015, Indiana repealed its prevailing wage law– called Common...
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