Michigan Takes a U-Turn Back to the Rust Belt

Michigan Takes a U-Turn Back to the Rust Belt
President Joe Biden speaks alongside Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (R) during a visit to a United Auto Workers (UAW) phone bank in the metropolitan Detroit area on Feb. 1, 2024. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
Stephen Moore
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No state in modern times has transitioned from a worker freedom state to one that forces workers to join a union and pay dues to labor bosses. All the momentum across the country in the past two decades has been in the opposite direction: allowing workers the right to choose a union—or not.

Stephen Moore
Stephen Moore
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Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, chief economist at FreedomWorks, and co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. He served as a senior economic adviser to Donald Trump. His latest book is “Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Impoverishing America.”
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