Workers’ compensation laws, the first government insurance adopted in the United States, spread rapidly from state to state in the 1910s. The history of Minnesota’s program, adopted in 1913, shows how politicking by special interests affects public policy.
How Minnesota Adopted Workers’ Compensation
By Price V. Fishback, Shawn Everett Kantor
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article
appeared in
the Spring 1998 issue of The Independent Review.
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| Other Independent Review articles by Price V. Fishback | |
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