Education

Analysis Finds Failing Public Schools Racked by Violence

  • October 18, 2011

The Commonwealth Foundation released today an alarming new analysis of school violence that uncovered more than 4,500 criminal acts occurred at the 141 public schools scoring worst in the…

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Education

New Report Card on American Education

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 3, 2010

ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, today released their latest Report Card on American Education. The annual report looks at both student performance and inputs into the education system, evaluating…

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Taxes & Economy

Citizen’s Guide to the Tenth Amendment

  • May 20, 2010

The Institute for Policy Innovation has produced a short informational guide to the Tenth Amendment. The Tenth Amendment was ratified in order to guarantee individual rights and responsibilities for…

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Health Care

State Legislators’ Guide to Health Insurance Solution

  • Nathan Benefield
  • April 5, 2010

Council for Affordable Health Insurance and ALEC have released their 2010 State Legislators Guide to Health Insurance Solutions. Here is a PDF version of the full report…

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Regulation

Property Tax Relief Not as Awesome as Rendell Says

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 25, 2010

Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner put out another report that should embarrass the Rendell administration, this one one the claimed benefits of property tax relief. (Full report in…

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Taxes & Economy

Government Spending Doesn’t Stimulate Economic Growth

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 14, 2010

Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation has a good Backgrounder on why government spending is no economic stimulus, including answering some of the points that neo-Keynesians make. (Click…

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State Budget

Pennsylvania House Democrats Budget, By the Numbers

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 15, 2009

As we have done with Gov. Rendell’s proposed budget, the Senate passed budget, and the House GOP proposed budget amendment, here is a breakdown of the proposed…

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State Budget

Pennsylvania Budget Proposals – Revised Spreadsheet Now Online

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 3, 2009

The Rendell administration has released a new version of his Pennsylvania state budget proposal, unfortunately this is only available in a PDF document, and does not include the allocation…

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