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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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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Education

Happy National Employee Freedom Week, America

• Priya Brannick
• June 24, 2013

National Employee Freedom Week is about informing workers about their rights and empowering them to exercise their freedoms. Ultimately, there are ways for workers to leave the Hotel California. We…

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Education

Cyber School Funding in Pennsylvania

• Elizabeth Stelle, Priya Brannick
• May 30, 2013

Cyber schools currently spend significantly less per student than school districts and only represent about 1% of spending on public education. Discrepancies in cyber school funding are the result of…

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Fixing Questionable Union Spending, Practices

• May 24, 2013

Following teacher Mike Quinn’s e-mail explaining his perspective on how the Pennsylvania State Education Association and National Education Association spend members’ dues poorly, Free to Teach…

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Does Early Childhood Education Benefit Students?

• April 23, 2013

Gov. Corbett recently proposed an $11.4 million increase in the early childhood education budget, which means Pennsylvania could spend a total of $348.4 million on early…

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Public Union Democracy

Union Politics Hinder Prosperity

• Priya Brannick
• January 16, 2013

Businessman Jerry Shenk argues in today’s Harrisburg Patriot-News that tough economic realities forced lawmakers to reexamine union privileges in their traditional strongholds of Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana—and that Pennsylvania…

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Education

Busting Charter School Funding Myths

• Priya Brannick
• December 27, 2012

Charter schools are under fire again this month, following renewed criticism from Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner on how the schools spend and save their funding.

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Michigan made right call on right-to-work legislation

• December 26, 2012

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