New Research: Federal Workers Make 61 Percent More than Private Counterparts

By Robert Ross

06/16/2011

The American Enterprise Institute has released a working paper stating the federal compensation premium compared to private compensation is approximately 61 percent.

TAGS: American Enterprise Institute, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Cato Institute, Chris Edwards, John Berry, Louisiana Sunshine, U.S. Office of Personnel Management

President’s Cabinet Appointments Lack Private Sector Experience

By Robert Flanagan

12/04/2009

Nick Schulz, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, recently posted a chart that showed prior private sector experience for members of the President’s Cabinet from 1900 to 2009. The chart, which came from a J.P. Morgan research report, is posted below. Schulz states that the chart excludes the Postmaster General, Navy, War, Health, Education...

TAGS: American Enterprise Institute, Cabinet, J.P. Morgan, Nick Schulz, Obama

Antitrust & Enforcement: Letting Markets Work without Empowering Government

In their report “Antitrust & Enforcement: Letting Markets Work without Empowering Government,” Ted Bolema, Ph.D., J.D., Antitrust and Competition Fellow at the Innovators Network Foundation, and Vance Ginn, Ph.D., Chief Economist at the Pelican Institute, write that while the current frustrations with the size of large tech companies and censorship practices may be warranted, giving...

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