Mark Hemingway: Sweet deals for unions from taxpayers

Part two in a two-part series

Even by Washington’s usual Orwellian standards, the idea that the “Annual Report of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class” would turn out to be smorgasbord of payoffs to politically influential labor unions is appalling. Nowhere is the report’s doublespeak dishonesty more evident than the section on “Responsible Federal Contracting.”