Obama and America's public sector plague / E.J. McMahon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMahon, E.J. (Edmund J.), 1954-

Series:

Encounter broadsides ; no. 15.

Encounter broadside ; no. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Local officials and employees--Salaries, etc--United States.

Local officials and employees.

Local officials and employees--Pensions--United States.

United States--Officials and employees--Salaries, etc.

United States.

United States--Officials and employees--Pensions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (28 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Public-sector employees enjoy much more generous pay and benefit packages than private-sector workers, including guaranteed pensions and retiree health benefits whose long-term costs threaten to break the backs of state and local taxpayers. In this provocative Broadside, E.J. McMahon explains how the policies of the Obama administration have shielded most state and local government employees from the worst effects of the Great Recession. President Obama's stimulus bill helped most states and local governments continue raising average employee pay even at the depths of the downtur

Contents:

Title Page; "STIMULATING " WHAT?; WAGGING THE DOG; HEAD OF THE CLASS; THE PUBLIC PENSION BOMB; CONCLUSION; Copyright Page

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612946530

9781282946538

1282946536

9781594035388

1594035385

OCLC:

798535250