What Really Matters for State Budgets
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0 Left 0 Centered 0 RightWisconsin's showdown over public sector unions is the launching pad for a wider debate about whether unionized government workers are bad for state budgets. You'd think higher paid state employees means more state government spending, which in a recession correlates with higher state budget shortfalls. But political scientist John Sides plots the relationship between state budget shortfalls and public union density and finds the correlation is nil.