The State of California vs. Volunteerism

Brian Doherty | 4.5.2004 1:26 AM

Thanks to a 2001 provision of California's state labor codes, the Sacramento Watersheds Action Group has been ordered to pay $50 grand in back wages and fines for the crime of using student volunteers on a creek restoration project.

Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).