Public Union Democracy

Teachers challenging union dues in California

Nathan Benefield
December 20, 2005

California teachers have initiated a lawsuit against the two major teacher’s unions in that state over their rights: NRTW – December Foundation Action The Califonia Teacher Association and California…

Media

Taxes & Economy

Limited Government, Unlimited Opportunity

Matthew Brouillette
May 13, 2005

Remarks from Matthew J. Brouillette’s unveiling of the Commonwealth Foundation’s “Unlimited Opportunity Blueprint” at the Tuesday Club’s Breakfast Lyceum on January 11, 2005. For seventeen years, the Commonwealth…

Commentary

Education

The Union Behind the Curtain

April 7, 2005

California’s Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is giving his 49 colleagues across the country a quick tutorial in political courage. And Gov. Ed Rendell would be wise to sit up in class…

Commentary

Taxes & Economy

No “Free Lunch” for Pennsylvania

January 26, 2005

"Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own," the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once remarked. For decades, Pennsylvania's state government has spent billions of taxpayer…

Commentary

Taxes & Economy

A Lack of Economic Freedom Threatens Our Political Freedom

November 18, 2004

One of the primary purposes of the United States and Pennsylvania Constitutions is to protect and preserve citizens' political freedom. The Founders realized that the American experiment could not succeed…

Commentary

Taxes & Economy

Economic Freedom: Endangered in Pennsylvania

November 16, 2004

Only 5 states perform worse than Pennsylvania in a national ranking of "economic freedom," according to a new study released today (in association with Forbes magazine) by the San Francisco-based…

Commentary

Taxes & Economy

Growth and Pennsylvanias Environment: The Facts

April 1, 2000

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Fact Sheet