The Open Market Blog

• By: Hans Bader
• 09/11/2008

Public employee unions make the false claim that public employees are underpaid and undercompensated.  But the reality is just the opposite.  Not only are public employees…

• By: Julie Walsh
• 09/10/2008

The presidential election is in a dead heat, so every vote counts. Yet ACORN wants some votes to count more than once. The Association of…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 09/09/2008

Shopfloor.org draws a stark contrast between The New York Times‘s stated position on unions for other employers, and its own laying off…

• By: Hans Bader
• 09/09/2008

Right now, the federal government, at a huge cost to taxpayers of perhaps $100 billion, is bailing out the two government-backed mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…