Time to End Taxpayer-Funded Government Union Giveaways
28 April 2017
Trey Kovacs, Policy Analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discusses the practice called "official time" that forces taxpayers to spend millions to subsidize government unions and why it needs to end.
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