Michigan's Prevailing Wage law helps assure that Michigan workers will receive fair and reasonable pay for their labor.

Today Michigan's Prevailing Wage law is under heavy attack by ill-informed legislators.

READ Professor Weisberg's analysis of Ohio LSC Report on S. B. 102.

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** Comments: "Surprisingly easy to understand ... In only a few pages and in terms most anyone can understand, Professor Weisberg shows how completely a state agency can mislead the public and the Ohio Legislature when it wants to 'lie with statistics'. Thank you Professor Weisberg!"

READ "Four Biases and a Funeral: Dr. Vedder's Faulty Experiment Linking Michigan's Prevaling Wage Law to Construction Employment" by Professor Peter Philips.

** One commentator has characterized it as "Nothing less than a complete and scathing rebuke" of Dr. Richard Vedder's 1999 Research publication, "Michigan's Prevailing Wage Law and Its Effects on Government Spending and Construction Employment."