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Reality Check: Do Right-to-Work laws help or hurt the economy?

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(FOX19) - The Indiana State Senate is expected to vote Wednesday to approve the state's new Right-to-Work law.

If you've been following the Right-to-Work fight in Indiana, then you know there has been a lot of debate over what this kind of law means for a state's economy.  

Governor Mitch Daniels has already said that he will sign it into law.

The question is do Right-to-Work states do better than so called "forced union" states?

Ben tries to separate the fact from fiction in a Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.

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