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Reports
If you're looking for resources on Prevailing Wage studies, please visit the National Alliance for Fair Contracting site for a wide selection of reports. www.faircontracting.orgAnother good source is the Sheet Metal And Air Conditioning Contractors Association site: www.smacna.org. Credit Disclosure 2003 Report
A Comparison of Public School Construction Costs, In Three Midwestern States that Have Changed their Prevailing Wage Laws in the 1990's, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan; by Peter Philips, Ph.D. Professor of Ecnomics, University of Utah, February 2001.
BCTD Apprenticeship Final Report; April 2005. This report reveals that almost every Associated Builders and Contractors apprenticeship program fails to provide this training to the majority of its apprentices.
Cost of Construction Report by the Polymer Alliance Zone; Final report issued February 2005. The goal of this project is to compare key construction cost and condition factors of the polymer industry in the Polymer Alliance Zone, Inc. of West Virginia with those in other States in the region.
Corporate Income Taxes in the Bush Years, September 2004; A Joint Project of Citizens for Tax Justice & the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy by Robert S. McIntyre Citizens for Tax Justice
ACT Report on Governors Fair Tax - An analysis of Governor Underwood's tax reform propoals. The report looks at the proposed new taxes and estimates the effects on working families.
An Economic Development Study by the University of Nevada - Las Vegas. Prof. Jeffrey Waddoups has actually quantified taxpayer healthcare costs generated by uninsured workers who were treated at the University Medical Center in Clark County.
Heavy Highway Report - Wages Productivity and Highway Construction Cost, Updated Analysis 1994-2002. Report produced by the National Heavy & Highway Alliance.
PERC Report 1998- A report by the Peoples Election Reform Coalilition that shows campaign contributions by types of contributors.
Prevailing Wages and Government Contracting Costs, Nooshin Mahalia, Economic Policy Institute. Analysis shows that most researchers have found that prevailing wage regulations in practice do not increase government contracting costs. The EPI is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank whose mission is to inform people and empower them to seek solutions that will ensure broadly shared prosperity and opportunity. Visit them at www.epi.org
