Courant's Headline Goof

Blogger Dan Schwartz shines some light on a misleading Hartford Courant headline this morning.

The headline reads, “Connecticut’s Union Coverage Falls by 17 Percent” (the Courant’s print headline reads, “State’s Union Membership Falls By 16.7 Percent”), yet that is not the case. As Schwartz points out, union membership declined 2.6 percent in 2010.

He concludes, “Mistakes happen, but headline goofs like this only reinforce some people’s perceptions that unions are in much worse shape in Connecticut than they are.”