Dr. Richard Vedder
The Toledo Blade quotes Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, is a story headlined “Ohio an island among right-to-work states.”
“If you looked at 2011-2012, Michigan has had a better recovery, a bigger fall in the unemployment rate, than Ohio has had,” said Richard Vedder, distinguished professor of economics emeritus at Ohio University in Athens who has closely studied right-to-work.
In March 2013, as Michigan’s right-to-work law took effect, Ohio’s jobless rate stood at 7.6 percent while Michigan’s stood at 9.0 percent. The Wolverine State’s recovery may have been helped to a greater degree by the rebound in the heavily unionized auto industry.
“The hot state is Indiana where the rate is 3.3 percent, way below Ohio and Michigan,” Mr. Vedder said. “Indiana has had right-to-work the longest, so it may take more time to gel and get the word out on it so that people realize it’s a permanent thing.”
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