Education

Study: Milwaukee school choice program saves taxpayers money

• Nathan Benefield
• February 25, 2008

A new study released by the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas, demonstrates how Milwaukee’s Parental Choice Program saves Wisconsin taxpayers money, as voucher amounts are…

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Let Wisconsin Experiment with Socialized Medicine

• Nathan Benefield
• August 8, 2007

John Stossel supports Wisconsin’s $15 billion socialized medicine plan. He thinks by screwing up health care badly enough – apparently we didn’t learn that lesson the Soviet Union, not…

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Renewed push on health care planned

• Nathan Benefield
• August 6, 2007

The Patriot News reports that Governor Rendell will continue to push his health care tax. Meanwhile, other state legislatures are taking up free-market health care reform (often to fight…

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Government Accountability

Pat Toomey Joins Board of Directors of the Commonwealth Foundation

• August 6, 2007

HARRISBURG, PA — The Commonwealth Foundation—Pennsylvania’s free-market public policy think tank—announced the election of former Pennsylvania Congressman Pat Toomey to its Board of Directors. “We are honored to add…

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The Education Market Index

• Nathan Benefield
• December 13, 2006

The Cato Institute release a report, The Education Market Index, which ranks states on the freedom and choice in their K-12 education markets. Pennsylvania ranks 9th, but only with…

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Regulation

Manufacturing Job Loss in the Great Lakes Region

• Nathan Benefield
• July 27, 2006

The Brookings Institution released a study on manufacturing jobs lost in the Great Lakes region. The numbers and findings are interesting: many of the nation’s manufacturing jobs “lost” were…

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Education

School Choice Works!

• March 17, 2005

A Quick Guide to the Scholarly Literature on School Choice During a recent round of visits with print journalists, I spoke to a newspaper editor who told me that she…

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