Support Prevailing Wage
Academics and industry experts have overwhelmingly established the benefits of federal and state prevailing wage laws for workers, taxpayers, responsible contractors and local economies.
- Should Prevailing Wages Prevail? Reexamining the Effect of Prevailing Wage Laws on Affordable Housing Construction Costs
Dale Belman, Ph.D., Matt Hinkel, Michigan State University (2019) - The Economic, Fiscal, and Social Impacts of State Prevailing Wage Laws: Choosing Between the High Road and the Low Road in the Construction Industry
Kevin Duncan, Ph.D., Frank Manzo IV, MPP, Alex Lantsberg, MCP, AICP (Feb. 2016) - Building America with Prevailing Wage: The Davis-Bacon Act Delivers Good Middle-Class Jobs, a Stronger Economy, and the Best Value for U.S. Taxpayers
Kevin Duncan, Peter Philips, and Frank Manzo IV; Colorado State University-Pueblo, University of Utah, and the Illinois Economic Policy Institute (April 2017) - The Benefits of State Prevailing Wage Laws; Better Jobs and More Productive Competition in the Construction Industry
Keystone Research Center (Oct. 2011) - Prevailing Wages and Government Contracting Costs
Economic Policy Institute (July 2008)
Additional Studies and Reports can be found here.
State Prevailing Wage Resources
- Affiliated Construction Trades Foundation
- Affiliated Construction Trades Ohio
- Alliance for Competitive Contracting
- Center for Contract Compliance
- Construction Business Group
- Foundation for Fair Contracting of Massachusetts
- Fair Contracting Foundation of Minnesota
- Foundation for Fair Contracting (CA)
- Foundation for Fair Contracting of Connecticut
- Illinois Economic Policy Institute
- IMPACT – Ironworkers
- Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting
- LDC Labor Management Cooperation Committee
- Laborers’ International Union of North America
- Midwest Economic Policy Institute
- Michigan Fair Contracting Center
- North America’s Building Trades Unions
- New York Foundation for Fair Contracting
- Public Works Compliance Network
- Smart Cities Prevail
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