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School Choice Is Working

Giving parents a choice of their children’s schools leads to better educational outcomes—a handy thing to know since this is National School Choice Week. Rachel Sheffield rounds up some of the evidenc More...

Calculate Your Public Pension

You can now find out how good your pension benefits would be if you worked for state government. Just visit CalculateYourPublicPension.com, which calculates the pension you would earn if you were a pu More...

Right-to-Work Means Economic Growth

Becoming a right-to-work state—i.e., not compelling workers to give money to unions in order to work—will help Indiana’s economy grow, reports Paul Kersey (“What a Right-to-Work Law Will Mean for Indi More...

Economic Freedom Doesn’t Cause Inequality

One plan for reducing economic inequality would be to let rich people fail while letting poor people become rich. Robert Lawson explains: More...

Conservative Donors Make the Academy Better

The idea that conservative donors become academic thought police when they fund university academic centers is severely misguided, explains Scott Walter in a recent article at Philanthropy Daily (“Are More...

States that Forgo a Tax Source Tend to Have a Better Business Climate

Wyoming has the best state tax business climate in the country, according to the Tax Foundation’s new 2012 State Business Tax Climate Index. The rest of the top 10 are South Dakota, Nevada, Alaska, Fl More...

Wisconsin Reforms Working

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s reforms of public employee pensions and collective bargaining are working, reports Christian Schneider: Before the reform, many districts’ annual union contracts requi More...

1,000 Days and Counting Since the Senate Passed a Budget

Tuesday was the 1,000th day since the U.S. Senate passed an annual budget—which is supposed to happen more or less annually. There’s lots of other stuff that can get done in 1,000 days: To put th More...

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The Wyden–Ryan Proposal—A Foundation for Realistic Medicare Reform

Source: American Enterprise Institute

Given the serious fiscal problems facing this country, slowing the growth of Medicare spending is no longer optional. The only question is how to do it. The Wyden–Ryan proposal outlines a strategy for Medicare reform that harnesses market forces to control cos More...

How and Why a U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis Could Cccur

Source: American Enterprise Institute

A United States sovereign debt crisis is a remote possibility, but in our increasingly fragile system it could be triggered by a number of financial catastrophes—from a chaotic break-up of the Euro system to something as adventitious as a serious earthquake in More...

Europe as a Major Risk to the U.S. Economic Outlook

Source: American Enterprise Institute

In the year ahead, a more than likely intensification of the European debt crisis constitutes the major external risk to the United States economic outlook. This is partly because United States export prospects will be negatively impacted by a marked weakening More...

Unions’ Declining Appeal Shows Need for Alternatives

Source: The Heritage Foundation

Union membership, which has fallen to a new post–World War II low of 11.8 percent in 2011, has decreased because traditional collective bargaining does not appeal to most workers. Polls show that only one in 10 non-union workers wants to organize. But while wo More...

Heath Warnings on Consumer Products: Why Scarier Is Not Better

Source: Washington Legal Foundation

Public health officials and activists argue that warnings with alarming language and graphic images are required to effectively “guide” the public toward better consumption decisions. Graphic health warnings are not grounded in social psychological principles More...

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School Choice Is Working

Calculate Your Public Pension

Right-to-Work Means Economic Growth

Economic Freedom Doesn’t Cause Inequality

Conservative Donors Make the Academy Better

States that Forgo a Tax Source Tend to Have a Better Business Climate

Wisconsin Reforms Working

1,000 Days and Counting Since the Senate Passed a Budget

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The Wyden–Ryan Proposal—A Foundation for Realistic Medicare Reform

How and Why a U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis Could Cccur

Europe as a Major Risk to the U.S. Economic Outlook

Unions’ Declining Appeal Shows Need for Alternatives

Heath Warnings on Consumer Products: Why Scarier Is Not Better

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