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Corporate Welfare, Education, Gov. Walker, Government Spending, Innovation Center/Tech Park, Labor, Liberty, Local Government, School District, University, WEDC, Wisconsin

Education: Substance & Spending

by JOHN ADAMS • 02/10/2015 • Comments

Following comments to yesterday’s post on proposed cuts to the UW System schools (Caution arrives late, doesn’t recognize its surroundings), here are nine quick comments about education. 1. Act 10 as a budgetary tool. This centrally-planned idea didn’t work. Reductions in public-union bargaining powers in exchange for the ‘tools’ to balance school and other public…

History, Holiday, Labor

Happy Labor Day 2014

by JOHN ADAMS • 09/01/2014 • Comments

A history of Labor Day is available at the the U.S. Department of Labor’s website.

Free Markets, Immigration, Labor, Law, New Whitewater

Who Should Live in Whitewater?

by JOHN ADAMS • 01/29/2013 • Comments

It’s a simple question, with a simple answer: anyone who’d like to live here. Who those many will be, ten or twenty years on, I am not sure. One may be confident that the city will be more diverse, but in which ways there’s no certainty. (It’s better that there is no certainty, for if…

Economy, Free Markets, Labor

Immigration Myths

by JOHN ADAMS • 09/05/2012 • Comments

Prof. Ben Powell dispels myths about immigration in a concise, thoughtful video. Well worth watching, as a quick reminder of the power of free markets in capital and labor. Posted also on 9.5.12 @ Daily Adams.

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