March 3, 2010

Matt Mayer of the Buckeye Institute: State of the State

Our friends at the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions in Ohio recently released a report titled "State of the State: Two Decades of Weak Job Growth and Skyrocketing Government Costs Pose Daunting Challenges for Ohioans." Buckeye President Matt Mayer returns to the podcast this week to discuss some of the main findings in the 111-page report, which includes detailed economic profiles of the state's 88 counties.

Federal, state and local government workers earn far more than their private-sector neighbors in the majority of those counties: in 87 out of 88 counties at the federal level, 85 out of 88 for state and 57 out of 88 for local.

Read the full report, "State of the State: Two Decades of Weak Job Growth and Skyrocketing Government Costs Pose Daunting Challenges for Ohioans."

More on Ohio is available here.

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