Health Care

Medicaid Waivers & the Looming Fiscal Crisis

• Elizabeth Stelle
• April 9, 2012

In the waning days of 2008, the state of Rhode Island secured a global waiver for its Medicaid program. The waiver exempted the state from many federal rules and mandates in exchange for a…

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Health Care

Change We Can’t Afford

• Matthew Brouillette
• March 28, 2012

This week, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act celebrated its two-year anniversary before the U.S. Supreme Court. The controversial health care law finds itself in front of the highest…

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Taxes & Economy

Energy Essential to Economic Growth

• March 23, 2012

The World Economic Forum has a released an updated study on energy and economic growth in the US and guess what sector plays a huge role? That’s…

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Education

Violent, Failing Schools Will Lead to Unsafe, Ailing America

• Charles Mitchell
• March 21, 2012

That’s the upshot of a story in this morning’s Wall Street Journal.  It begins: Flaws in U.S. schools are increasingly causing a national-security risk, producing adults without the…

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Education

Does School Choice Harm Public Schools?

• March 12, 2012

This is a common question among school choice skeptics about whether school choice drains funding from public schools. According to new research by The Friedman Foundation for Educational…

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Of Mice, Barbie and Prevailing Wage

• March 8, 2012

In March of 1961, the Soviet Union shot a dog, some mice and a guinea pig into space.  Meanwhile, back in the U.S., nine black students from Mississippi…

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Regulation

Will our Grandchildren be Budget Losers?

• Richard Dreyfuss
• February 2, 2012

As the Governor's state budget address approaches, there is no shortage of speculation surrounding various fiscal austerity proposals and which departments and programs will likely be the ultimate budgetary "winners…

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Education

Not a Joke: Learn from Louisiana

• Charles Mitchell
• January 31, 2012

Here in Pennsylvania, we like to think we’re better than states like Louisiana.  Those folks used to have slaves, but our founder was a Quaker.  They’re poor, but we’re rich. …

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Education

Year of School Choice…and Beyond

• Nathan Benefield
• January 27, 2012

The Alliance for School Choice released its latest School Choice Yearbook highlighting the developments in school choice in 2011, as well as each of the programs in the United…

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