Heartland Research & Commentary

For more than four decades, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has subsidized construction in floodplains in the United States.

Connecticut is one of many states struggling to balance their budgets by introducing taxes on Internet goods and services.

The policy centerpiece of House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget proposal this year is his Medicare reform.

Many insurance and reinsurance companies reserve assets for U.S. catastrophe coverage in “offshore” locations such as Bermuda, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Germany.

Harnessing modern technology to tailor education personally and make it efficient is new and greatly unsettled territory.

Sometime in the next few days, Florida Gov.

Louisiana legislators have proposed an education reform that is garnering significant national attention: the Parent Trigger.

As states have been debating whether to implement a health insurance exchange, a key deterrent has been that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had released only draft rules.

Catastrophe bonds are insurance-linked securities that offset major costs to taxpayers and insurers caused by natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires states to expand Medicaid eligibility to all individuals whose income is less than 133 percent of the federal poverty level.