http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/02/what-really-matters-for-state-budgets/71651/
I found this article which is a different take on the current budget crisis. The scapegoat is not unions, but the dismal housing budgets. Do you think the statistics and graphs are convincing?
I don't really find the first graph convincing because there are factors that go into the budget shortfall for each state. What if one state didn't spend an absurd amount on anything besides paying workers and the state had a large density of public sector workers belonging to a union? On the graph, this may show up as a point like New York. Comparing the percentage of public workers belonging to a union to the overall budget shortfall seems like it provides meaningless data.
ReplyDeleteI think the article was poorly written and not convincing. There's no correlation.
ReplyDeleteI also do no find the statistics or graphs very convincing. I think more research needs to be done on this topic could in order to find more direct correlations regarding this view of the current budget crisis.
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