Sean Higgins is a research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute specializing in labor and employment issues. As journalist, he covered the intersection of politics and economics for two decades, having been senior writer for the Washington Examiner, Washington correspondent for Investor’s Business Daily and a contributor to publications like Reason and National Review Online.”
Authored by Sean Higgins
News
Disappointing August Job Gains Tied to Covid Restrictions, Politics
Competitive Enterprise Institute experts commented on today’s disappointing news about August job gains, urging policy makers to reject restrictions and politics and look for ways…
July Jobs Analysis: More Spending, Restrictions from Congress Won’t Help
The U.S. economy added 943,000 jobs in the month of July, with a decline in unemployment to 5.4 percent according to government numbers released…
CEI Experts React to President Biden’s Wide-Ranging Executive Order on Competition
President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy today, which the White House claims is aimed at enhancing…
Blog
Unions on Biden’s Vaccine Mandate: That’s Not in Our Contract
- By: Sean Higgins
President Biden’s vaccination mandate announcement on Friday has drawn a notably cool reaction from unions. While none appear to have come out against it, few…
The Cost of Uncertainty in Dealing with the Pandemic
- By: Sean Higgins
If there is one thing that businesses want more than anything else when it comes to regulations, it is predictability. That’s one case where what’s…
Mexican Workers Deserve Secret Ballot Elections; So Do U.S. Workers.
- By: Sean Higgins
Today, U.S. labor leaders applauded Mexican workers for getting rid of an allegedly corrupt union at a General Motors (GM) plant in Silao, in…
Op-Eds/Articles
National Review
Why Richard Trumka Failed
- By: Sean Higgins
The legacy of the late Richard Trumka, longtime leader of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation, is of a union movement firmly…
Inside Sources
AFL-CIO Endorses Right to Work Protections … for Mexican Workers?
- By: Sean Higgins
The nation’s largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO, came out recently in favor of “right to work” protections—but only for workers in Mexican factories. The AFL-CIO…
Reason
When Joe Biden Talks About Worker Choice, He Means Only 1 Choice
- By: Sean Higgins
President Joe Biden believes joining a union isn’t merely a right that workers have but something the federal government has an obligation to promote. He…
Studies
The Protect the Right to Organize Act Empowers Unions at Workers’ Expense
- By: Sean Higgins
View the Full Document as PDF The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act is touted by its supporters as advancing the rights…
Citations
The Center Square
Feds To Pay Hundreds Per Child To American Families; Critics Warn Of Economic Fallout
- By: Sean Higgins
The Center Square cites Research Fellow Sean Higgins on tax credits: “In and of itself, making the full child tax credit payments available to…
WORLD
Help wanted but hard to find
- By: Sean Higgins
WORLD cites research fellow Sean Higgins on the workforce and COVID-19: Analysts point to different factors behind this conundrum. Sean Higgins, a research fellow…
WORLD
PODCAST: Help Desperately Wanted
- By: Sean Higgins
WORLD’s podcast, “Help Desperately Wanted,” cited Senior Fellow Sean Higgins on unemployment and COVID-19: Sean Higgins is a research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise…