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Will McBride: Tax Freedom Day Lands April 18

BTN PODCAST: The Tax Foundation's annual Tax Freedom Day report is out, and it shows federal tax increases that took effect this year will move the date back five days from last year. But that's an average, as some states won't see tax freedom until well into May, while others already have tax freedom.

James Tooley: How the World's Poor Get a Good Education from Markets

SRN PODCAST: About a decade ago, James Tooley wandered out into a foreign slum and encountered a network of inexpensive private schools on every few street corners. The professor of education policy at Newcastle University and his team went back to study this system of education, and found that private schools serve the world's poor far better than local government schools, and at a far lower price. He later wrote the acclaimed book The Beautiful Tree about his experiences and research. Here, Tooley talks about his research, why education is not distorted by a profit motive, and why governments provide the poor worse services than they can get for themselves through free markets.

James M. Taylor: Renewable Power Mandates

ECN PODCAST: James M. Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute and host Jim Lakely discuss the latest news on efforts to roll back wasteful and expensive renewable power mandates from state to state.

Avik Roy: Arkansas Medicaid deal

HCN PODCAST: Benjamin Domenech talks with Avik Roy of the Manhattan Institute about Arkansas' Medicaid deal.

Wisconsin Teacher: Public Schools Push the U.S. Left

SRN PODCAST: Because bureaucrats control public schools, public schools have for decades pushed successive generations of Americans farther and farther left, says Karen Schroeder. She's president of Advocates for Academic Freedom and a Wisconsin public school teacher who has seen this first-hand. Because textbooks and teacher training are controlled by progressive bureaucrats, even private schools have the same effect. Schroeder explains how this damages academic freedom and self-government, and what parents and citizens can do about it. Find the petition she mentions here.

Jim Capretta: Medicaid Reform

HCN PODCAST: Benjamin Domenech interviews Jim Capretta of the EPPC on Medicaid reform.
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