Toll Road Privatization: As Ohio Considers It, Indiana Serves As Cautionary Tale Huffington Post ...In two weeks, the cost of traveling the 157-mile length of the Indiana Toll Road will rise more than 2 percent, from $8.80 to an even $9, for those who pay the toll in cash...
Wisconsin bill stripping bargaining rights from public sector workers goes into effect in Aug. Associated Press ...Wisconsin state employees will start paying more for their health care and pension benefits in late August, state officials said Wednesday -- even as a coalition of unions filed a new lawsuit against the GOP-supported plan that strips collective-bargaining rights from most public workers...
Wisconsin battle shifts to recall votes CNN ...Wisconsin's battle over labor rights shifted toward a series of recall elections Wednesday after the state's highest court reinstated a bitterly contested law that restricts collective bargaining for state workers...
Michigan Supreme Court agrees to consider legality of taxing public pensions mlive.com ...The Michigan Supreme Court has granted Gov. Rick Snyder’s request to consider the constitutionality of how pension income will be taxed beginning Jan. 1...
$6.1 billion state budget given preliminary approval in Legislature Bangor Daily News ...the budget also doubles Maine’s exemption to the estate tax, meaning the heirs of property, farms or businesses will not pay the “death tax” on the first $2 million of the estate’s value. Critics have decried that as a give-away to the wealthy...
Community activists launch campaign to combat right-to-work, preserve state min. wage, in Mo. St. Louis Public Radio ...Community activists and labor interests in Missouri are getting an early start on combating efforts next year to cap the state’s minimum wage and turn Missouri into a right-to-work state...
NH governor vetoes pension reform bill Associated Press ...Gov. John Lynch vetoed legislation on Wednesday that would require public employees to pay more toward their pensions and some to work longer -- to spare New Hampshire taxpayers...
