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Union membership rates expose need for recertification
This article was originally published by the Reno Gazette-Journal. Each summer, my organization requests, pursuant to Nevada’s Public Records Act, a series of records from local governments across the state…
Nevada government pay gap highest in the nation, new data shows
When measured as a percentage of private-sector earnings, Nevada local government workers were by far the highest paid in the nation last year, according to newly released Census data. Last…
PERS lawsuit timeline: 2011-2018
Update: We have prevailed! Despite receiving nearly $2 billion in taxpayer funding annually, the Public Employees’ Retirement System of Nevada (PERS) has spent years — and hundreds of thousands of…
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Nevada Public Employee Retirement System Next year, Nevada’s public employees and their employers (we taxpayers) are going to have to pay even higher amounts to cover pension costs. Starting July…
In case you missed it...Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving As Cato Senior Fellow Michael Tanner wrote this week in the National Review Online, the election cycle’s “dismal and often apocalyptic campaign rhetoric” may have obscured just how much…
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Education reform In recent years Nevadans have seen numerous reports of special-needs students in the Clark County School District being physically abused by teachers and aides. However, as Channel…