Mises Review 9, No. 3 (Winter 2003) THE WORM IN THE APPLE: HOW THE TEACHER UNIONS ARE DESTROYING AMERICAN EDUCATION Peter Brimelow Harper Collins, 2003, xxi + by results of tests. Is it not true that American students do less well than their European contemporaries, or than Americans in times past? If so, the case seems made can be cleared away, educational reform is doomed. In many states, a teachers union, often the NEA, can compel school district officials to deal with it. True
population in some African countries.... The United States plans to sue the EuropeanUnion unless it quickly opens its market to [genetically modified] products. France
at the Mises Institute: “This was published yesterday by the Wall Street Journal Europe . I thought you may be interested in reading it.” *** Italy’s Tyranny of Labor new schemes for disrupting daily life, while unions in Britain, Germany and other European countries are also demanding better deals and opposing economic reforms. But virtually illegal in Italy. If the referendum passes, it is likely to embolden union movements across Europe to seek similar extremes of protection. No one doubts
as Hong Kong’s coming loss of civil liberties.... The White House, Britain and the EuropeanUnion have all criticized the proposed security legislation in the last two weeks...”
up in arms about being prevented from using its own name.” The US position? “The EuropeanUnion is asking the US government, US producers and US consumers to subsidise EU
labor agency. However, American employees also work longer hours, and three European countries - Norway, France and Belgium - beat the Americans in productivity U.S. worker last year was $60,728, the report said. Belgium, the highest-scoring EuropeanUnion member, had an output of $54,333 per worker.” Why Be Optimistic (LRC): “Hardly
last in GDP growth for all E.U. countries for the past 3 years. All in all, Europe’s mightiest economy is on track to fade from the economic spotlight and take much of the continent down with it. For years, Europeans have criticized the American “hire and fire” system of capitalism. Yet it . Auto giant and German stalwart Volkswagen recently negotiated a deal with its union to limit pay, increase flexibility with its workers and tie pay to performance.
or so I was told, at a lunch he had for network anchors before the State of the Union message. He reportedly came across as cocky, not so much sure of himself as too He said this as if everyone should recognize the hymn and the meaning, though Europeans couldn’t possibly, and few even in the West and East Coast of the US could
anything from skepticism to outright hostility across the Atlantic. Although the EuropeanUnion (EU) is far from forging a common foreign policy, its extensive experience in
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