What happened after Michigan became a right-to-work state has liberals devastated…

In the words of President Reagan, you can’t be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy, and still be for the little guy. Liberals predicted disaster for the workers in Michigan if the state adopted right-to-work laws, and they couldn’t have been more wrong.

Following the passage of right-to-work laws, personal income has increased:Michigan’s per-capita personal income increased from $38,291 in 2012 (before right-to-work became law) to $39,215 in 2013, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. That increase was the ninth highest in the country. (snip)

“The dire predictions of right-to-work detractors have not come true — Michigan has been a leader in income growth since passage,” said James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

A study released this week by Richard Vedder, a distinguished professor of economics at Ohio University and an adjunct scholar with the American Enterprise Institute as well as with the Mackinac Center, found that “incomes rise following the passage of RTW laws, even after adjusting for substantial population growth that those laws also induce. RTW states tend to be vibrant and growing; non-RTW states tend to be stagnant and aging.”

[link to youngcons.com]