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Come down. an average of a couple thousands of dollars. you are the 24th state to have it do you believe that salaries are going to come down in michigan? >> well, let me put it in perspective for you. we didnt have right to work in michigan and in the last decade from 2000 to 2010 wages in michigan went down substantially. we went from being in the teens of the 50 states to being 40th. so we saw a significant drop not being a right-to-work state. the last couple years we started coming back up,...

Come down. an average of a couple dollars. you are the 24th state to have it do you believe that salaries are going to come down in michigan? >> well, let me put it in perspective for you. we didnt have right to work in michigan and in the last decade from 2000 to 2010 wages in michigan went down substantially. we went from being in the teens of the 50 states to being 40th. so we saw a significant drop not being a right-to-work state. the last couple years we started coming back up, i view this ...

>> i want to turn to the ramifications that come along with the right to work laws, because michigan is now the 24th state in the country to enact such union limiting laws. i want you to listen to what the governor said this morning, governor snyder, on "morning joe" just a few hours after the power of the unions. >> if you go to the last century, people flocked to join the unions because they saw value in that. fast forward to today, shouldnt unions still have to present a value proposition? an...

Legislature would have to give a license plate to real estate develo developers in favor of development. gregg: im completely out of time. good to see you both. good debate. martha: significanting argument. lets go over to jenna low and find out what is coming up a few minutes away on "happening now." jenna: he was just telling me he had a desaoeurpb license plate. he was a poe die a podiatrist. we will be talking about the big story, protestors taking over the state capitol in michigan. as mich...

Overall will lower, over time and then they will be able to phase that out in 2017, unless congress decides to extend the fee if those cost savings dont seem to materialize. if history is any guide congress almost never finds parting with new taxes very easy. several large companies will end up paying tens of millions of dollars in the fee. maybe a few hundred dollars for the small firms. most will get passed on to workers. it is a tax increase no matter how you look at it really. [shouting] gre...

An effort to kill the unions throughout the midwest, throughout the u.s. the republican governor says its an effort to save his state financially. an economist we talked to who has been looking at the history of right-to-work states said this about the evidence. >> of the top 10 performing states in the past 20 years, nine, the top nine were all right-to-work states. the 10th state was washington. the state of washington. washington is not a right-to-work state or a freedom to work state but it ...

For a vote of concurrence and they are expected to last. as you look around at live pictures. you look at video we have rolling. look at everything on the lawn in the cradle kill of -- cradle of organized labor. michigan will become a right-to-work state. republicans have the majority in the house and senate. all michigan democrats can do is let their voice be heard and express their anger. >> but now it is official. ladies and gentlemen, the governor of michigan is greedy nerd and one weak fwee...

Jogging could be good for your body but bad for your brain. people who jog outdoors especially in urban areas have higher risk of brain inflammation and slower iq scores. the reason air pollution. in high levels air pollution can reduce the ability to process new information. that is your 5@5:30. michigan is set to become the nations 24th right to work state today. but it wont happen quietly. hundreds perhaps even thousands of union members descending on the capital to stage a protest. doug lu...

Was talking about and they are absolutely embedded in law and there is no question about them. >> the problem with that is that congress has done nothing to put legislation in place to cut spending to meet those caps. and thats one of the reasons that were now in the fiscal cliff. >> baseline budgeting has been used by both parties since 1974. allows republicans to exaggerate claims of frugality. allows democrats to expand the growth of government. either way accounting trick that no family trie...

[shouting]. gregg: look at that. that is the rotunda of the state capitol in lansing, michigan, as the legislature there is about to vote to turn michigan into a right-to-work state and those union protesters are down right angry about it. this legislation which will be signed by the republican governor essentially says that michigan is no longer a closed shop where workers have to join a union and have to pay dues. and that of course has raised the ire of union supporters and union members. wel...