Dale Belman and Paula B. Voos, Prepared for the Institute for Wisconsin's Future, October 1995.
The Davis-Bacon Act, established to protect local wage levels on
publicly-funded construction projects, is being challenged in Congress.
Attempts to repeal Davis-Bacon and weaken state prevailing wage laws
are based on the claim that repeal will bolster state and federal
budgets. However, in the nine states in which prevailing wage laws were
repealed in the 1980's, state budgets and taxpayers did not benefit. In
fact, repeal of these regulations actually resulted in a loss to state
budgets and had a negative impact on state economies...
Prevailing Wage Laws in Construction: The Costs of Repeal to Wisconsin
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Submitted by superuser on July 22, 2007 - 1:15pm.
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