Charles Murray | This Way Up
It’s an age-old debate between the left and the right. The left says poverty — inner-city poverty and working-class poverty — is mostly about economics. The right says culture has at least as much to do with it.
by David R. Henderson via EconLog
Labor unions play a central role in the Democratic party coalition, providing candidates with voters, volunteers, and contributions, as well as lobbying policymakers. Has the sustained decline of organized labor hurt Democrats in elections and shifted public policy? We use the enactment of right-to-work laws--which weaken unions by removing agency shop protections-- to estimate the effect of unions on politics from 1980 to 2016.