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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Checklist of Green Deal Cost Elements
by David Wojick April 20, 2020Green Deal proposals are springing up around the world. The core concept is zero CO2 emissions via decarbonization. The proponents of these Green Deals deliberately avoid cost estimates because the costs are horrendous.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedHealth CareLegal AffairsPodcastRegulationTaxes
In The Tank (ep158) – World Poverty Declines Bigly, and Medicaid Expansion Costs Underestimated… Bigly
by Donald Kendal September 21, 2018Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft, with the help of Charlie Katebi, present episode #158 of the In The Tank Podcast. This week’s episode features work from the Cato Institute, the World Bank, The Heartland Institute, the Idaho Freedom Foundation, the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, and Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Budgets/TaxesClimate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedPodcastRegulation
In The Tank (ep111) – State Business Tax Climate, Soda Tax Fail, Conservation Easements
by Donald Kendal October 20, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #111 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Tax Foundation, the Illinois Policy Institute, The Property and Environment Research Center, and the Fraser Institute.
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Budgets/TaxesHealth Care
In The Tank (ep62) – Obamacare Premiums Skyrocket, the Chicago Cubs, and Halloween Candy
by Donald Kendal October 28, 2016John and Donny continue their weekly exploration of think tanks across the country in episode #62 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from The Heartland Institute, the Galen Institute, the Illinois Policy Institute, and MacIver Institute.
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
In The Tank Podcast (ep52): Nevada Policy Research Institute, Freedom in the 50 States, 20 Anniv of Welfare Reform
by Donald Kendal August 19, 2016John and Donny continue their weekly exploration of think tanks across the country in episode #52 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Nevada Research Institute, the Cato Institute, the Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity, and The Heartland Institute.
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Critics of libertarians seem to worry most about our full-throated endorsement of and enthusiasm for the proven benefits of unhindered free-market competition. They believe that we are cynically defending a corrupt system of power and privilege, carrying water for capitalism’s exploiter class. There is, they argue, a need for governments, ostensibly pledged to “the greater good,” to intervene to counteract some of the perceived undesirable side effects of the free market system, which they say moves society toward inequitable accumulations of wealth in the hands of a few.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Veronique de Rugy: The New “Overtime Rule” Regulations
by Jesse Hathaway June 30, 2016In this episode of the weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with Mercatus Center senior research fellow Veronique de Rugy about the “Overtime Rule,” a regulation passed down by the U.S. Department of Labor revising federal overtime provisions contained in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
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FeaturedHealth CarePodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Sean Parnell: A Shamelessly Uninsured Self-Pay Patient Saving Thousands on Health Care
by Michael Hamilton June 29, 2016The shamelessly uninsured: Michael Hamilton, host of the Health Care News Podcast and managing editor of Health Care News, and Sean Parnell, author of The Self-Pay Patient: Affordable Healthcare Choices in the Age of Obamacare and a former Health Care News managing editor.
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FeaturedHealth CarePodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Rep. Cameron Sexton (TN): Government Regs Hurt Health Care Quality, Raise Costs
by Michael Hamilton April 5, 2016On today’s Health Care News Podcast, Tennessee state Rep. Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) joined Health Care News Managing Editor Michael Hamilton to explain why reforming Tennessee’s certificate of need (CON) laws will go far to improve health care quality, lower costs, and increase access for patients.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
‘Loss of Place’ is Legitimate, Fear of Frac Sand is Not
by Isaac Orr March 21, 2016The mining of sand used for hydraulic fracking has become a controversial issue in communities throughout Western Wisconsin. While many discussions examine the environmental and economic impacts of industrial sand mining, a new paper by an anthropology professor from the University of Wisconsin-Stout attempts to take stock of the social impacts of mining. This paper investigates a phenomenon called “loss of place,” which refers to an emotion people have when they lose a sense of their own identity due to changing physical or societal landscapes.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Ryan Yonk (Pt.2): Dissecting Wind, Solar, Hydro, Biomass, and Geothermal
by H. Sterling Burnett December 16, 2015(Part 2) In this edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Ryan Yonk, Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Utah State University and Executive Director of Strata Policy joins Managing Editor of Environment & Climate News, H. Sterling Burnett. Yonk joins Burnett to discuss the environmental impacts, reliability, benefits, and costs of the various renewable energy sources.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Ryan Yonk (Pt.1): Dissecting Wind, Solar, Hydro, Biomass, and Geothermal
by H. Sterling Burnett December 15, 2015In this edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Ryan Yonk, Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Utah State University and Executive Director of Strata Policy joins Managing Editor of Environment & Climate News, H. Sterling Burnett. Yonk joins Burnett to discuss the environmental impacts, reliability, benefits, and costs of the various renewable energy sources.
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EducationFeatured
Supreme Court to Adjudicate Mandatory Union Fees
by Nancy Thorner and Bonnie O'Neil November 13, 2015The Supreme Court put public-sector unions in its cross hairs Tuesday, June 30, 2015 by agreeing to hear a constitutional attack on the mandatory representation fees that nearly all California teachers pay in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association.