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May 01
Should the General Assembly Get a Pay Raise?

  May 1, 2017, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

  John Locke Foundation, 200 W. Morgan Street, 2nd Floor, Raleigh, North Carolina 27601


The issue of how much to pay politicians naturally raises a wide range of thorny philosophical and empirical questions. This presentation reviews the claims made by proponents of pay raises, and compares their arguments to the available research on how we compensate politicians in the United States.
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