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Obamacare premiums should hold steady, report finds

• August 30, 2013

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Education

Unions First, Teachers & Students Last

• August 29, 2013

The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) might take legal action against the School District of Philadelphia for … wait for it … hiring back teachers. The Philadelphia School Reform Commission…

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Health Care

Want to Help the Poor? Don’t Expand Medicaid

• Elizabeth Stelle, Nathan Benefield
• August 29, 2013

Yesterday, we talked about why Michigan’s plan to expand Medicaid was a bad deal for taxpayers. But expansion is a bad deal for patients too. Advocates of expansion make…

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Burdens of Obamacare

• August 29, 2013

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Education

Podcast: Cyber School in Real Life

• August 29, 2013

Meet Jake Swink. Jake is a 2013 graduate of Bloomsburg University with a degree in Computer Science. In a few weeks, he will be utilizing these skills as a 2nd…

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Health Care

Michigan’s Medicaid Mistake

• Elizabeth Stelle, Nathan Benefield
• August 28, 2013

Michigan’s decision to expand Medicaid leaves Pennsylvania and four other states to decide if putting more individuals into a government program is the best way to offer “affordable health…

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Regulation

No Award for PLCB “Effort”

• August 28, 2013

My siblings and I grew up in very difficult circumstances. And by that I mean we grew up without video games. A well-intentioned family friend offered to buy us a…

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Public Union Democracy

One Marshamallow Now or Taxpayer Relief Later?

• Elizabeth Stelle
• August 27, 2013

What do preschoolers with marshmallows and Pennsylvania’s pension crisis have in common? Both demonstrate a failure to delay gratification. Dr. Joseph Horton at Grove City College compares Pennsylvania’s pension…

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Don’t let politicians keep making same mistakes with pensions: PennLive letters

• August 27, 2013

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Health Care

Free Market Benefits, Big Government Burdens Obvious in Obama, Sebelius Visits

• Elizabeth Stelle, Nathan Benefield
• August 23, 2013

President Obama and one of his cabinet members are making separate trips to Pennsylvania this week.  Their reasons for visiting couldn’t be more different. Today, the President will speak on…

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Government Accountability

Playing Politics at the PLCB

• August 23, 2013

Politics is getting in the way of reform at the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, according to Tribune-Review reporter Kari Andren, who gives us a fascinating look at the internal…

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Education

Five Facts on the Philadelphia Schools Crisis

• Priya Brannick
• August 22, 2013

Things have reached a fever pitch in Philadelphia as the city’s school district—the eighth-largest in America—is scrambling to close its $300 million deficit and open schools on time. As protestors…

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Health Care

Obamcare’s Premium Shock

• Elizabeth Stelle
• August 19, 2013

Young adults who purchase their health insurance are in for rude awakening under the Affordable Care Act. The ironically-named law will force premiums to spike in order to pad insurance companies’ pockets. Is this what…

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A different way to reform Harrisburg

• August 16, 2013

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Privatization propaganda

• August 15, 2013

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Forced Union Agreements Assume Educators Cannot Make Own Decisions

• August 14, 2013

I have worked as a high school guidance counselor in an Adams County school district for the past 14 years. The job is a blessing in that it provides a…

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Another anti-liquor privatization attack proves inaccurate

• August 13, 2013

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After layoffs, Philly schools still hiring

• August 13, 2013

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Criminal Justice Reform

Obama Learns from Pa. on Corrections Reform

• Nathan Benefield
• August 13, 2013

Criminal justice policy that offers less spending, lower crime and improved outcomes for offenders—too good to be true? Actually, that is the result of recent corrections reforms in…

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ALEC is not an evil force in Pennsylvania’s Capitol

• August 12, 2013

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Health Care

Medicaid Abuse Shows Downside of Expansion

• Nathan Benefield
• August 12, 2013

New polling shows 70 percent of Pennsylvania voters think we need to address waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid before expanding the program.  A perusal of the news explains…

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