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As shown by the 2019 NAEP, most of our students are being badly shortchanged.
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentLibertyPolitics
How US v. Google Antitrust Case Changes Internet Platform Antitrust Outlook
by Scott Cleland September 18, 2020The impending public filing of the DOJ-Google antitrust complaint effectively will mark publicly the end of the U.S. lax antitrust era of Internet platform “antitrustPollyannaism”
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeaturedHealth CarePodcast
In The Tank (ep90) – Center of the American Experiment, Stadium Subsidies, and NY Universal Health Care
by Donald Kendal May 26, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #90 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Center of the American Experiment, the Mercatus Center, and Empire Center.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
In The Tank (ep83) – Self-Driving Cars, Cali High Speed Boondoggle, and Minimum Wage Head Fake
by Donald Kendal April 7, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #83 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Rand Corporation, the California Policy Center, and Reason.
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Budgets/TaxesEducationEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedHealth CarePodcast
In The Tank (ep70) – 2016 in Review, and 2017 Predictions
by Donald Kendal January 6, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #70 of the In The Tank Podcast. Donny and John review 2016 and make predictions about 2017.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Hillary Clinton’s Terrible Government Broadband Plan
by Seton Motley August 16, 2016With all the attending awfulness you expect. The laxness, the arrogance – the terrible performance. (See: ObamaCare, the Post Office, “green energy,” your Department of Motor Vehicles,….) And the willful denial of the fact that innumerable past failures – portend more of the exact same, should we be foolish enough to yet again try the exact same.
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In 2015, Mississippi enacted the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Program, creating education savings accounts for parents of special-needs students. The ESA program allows these parents to use a percentage of the money allotted for their children at traditional public schools on education alternatives instead.
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Congressional oversight of executive branch agencies is a key element of the checks and balances that prevent accumulation of too much power, as well as abuse of that power, in any one part of government. A review of two recent congressional oversight endeavors now being stymied by the Obama Administration underscores the often-overlooked importance of the oversight process. In both cases, lives are at stake.
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EducationEnvironment/Energy
Will the War Against Parental Choice Ever End?
by Robert Holland June 28, 2016No matter how many courts have rejected their pleadings, enemies of school choice appear committed to a 100-year-long judicial war in quest of some ultimate edict that will keep American students forever captive in government schools.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Don Boyd: The Failure of Public Pension Funds
by Jesse Hathaway June 22, 2016In this episode of the Heartland Institute’s weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with Nelson J. Rockefeller Institute of Government director of fiscal studies Don Boyd about a new study examining how the assumptions and gimmicks public pension boards use to fund pensions are affected by investment risks, and how those risks affect taxpayers and government employees.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final methane rule on May 12. The 600-page rule is agenda-driven and backed by pseudoscience, emotions, and unicorn dust, and it’s important to note one specific change in the final rule amounts to a regulatory taking. The final rule imposes costly regulations on wells producing fewer than 15 barrels per day, effectively shutting down those businesses.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
For Safety’s Sake, We Should Encourage Uber and Lyft
by Jesse Hathaway May 23, 2016Austin voters have approved a ballot referendum to regulate peer-to-peer transportation network companies such as Lyft and Uber, forcing the companies to suspend service in a city otherwise known for its forward thinking and friendliness toward innovation.
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Legislators have long attempted to reduce the negative health impacts of smoking through taxes, bans, and regulations. Some have tried to extend these same policies to electronic cigarettes or “e-cigarettes,” even though they contain no tobacco and are substantially less harmful than traditional cigarettes. This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unveiled new regulations placing electronic cigarettes under an avalanche of new rules requiring that they be approved as a new type of tobacco product — effectively treating them like traditional cigarettes.