Reforming Teachers Unions from Within

  • August 6, 2013

I am a special educator because I wanted to teach students who learn differently that they can be successful in school, both academically and socially. I did not become a…

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Government Accountability

New Video: CF President on FOX Business

  • August 5, 2013

This morning, CF President & CEO Matthew Brouillette appeared on FOX Business’s Varney & Co. to highlight the public pension crisis facing Pennsylvania and cities and states across the…

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Regulation

Copycat Union Letters Repeat Pension Myths

  • Priya Brannick
  • August 5, 2013

In July, a commentary by Matt Brouillette on why pension reform failed in our state legislature ran in several newspapers across Pennsylvania. Now response letters from teachers have been…

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Education

PSEA’s Political Cartoon Targets Corbett, Belittles Teachers

  • August 1, 2013

This perspective was written by Steve Calabro, a cyber charter school educator in Pennsylvania. This latest political email alert from the Pennsylvania State Education Association—using union dues, I might add—is…

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Public Union Democracy

Government Unions Break Cities

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 30, 2013

An article in today’s Wall Street Journal illustrates how government union leaders halted any reforms that may have prevented Detroit’s bankruptcy: A major expense for Detroit is the…

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Regulation

Liquor Privatization Saves Lives?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 22, 2013

A little more than one year ago, Washington state privatized its liquor stores (and liquor wholesale operations). As we’ve noted before, both sales and tax revenue increased under privatization.

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Taxes & Economy

Drilling Moratorium Handcuffs Landowners, Stunts Economy

  • Gordon Tomb
  • July 18, 2013

The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) continues to stymie development of the Marcellus Shale in all or parts of 13 Pennsylvania counties even as Governor Corbett, Senator Pat…

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