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PRESS RELEASE: New Heartland Study Finds Trump Tax Cuts Delivered Largest Benefits to Working-Class Americans, Not the Rich
Opinion -Press Release -Though all filers received income tax reductions, working-class Americans received substantially higher tax rate cuts than higher-income filers. -
Sodom and Gomorrah, California: America Previews the Wages of Arrogance and Incompetence
Opinion -During these past few days, our nation has had a dramatic preview of a community that has entrusted its civic institutions for way too long to arrogant, incompetent ideologues who failed to provide the needed services to protect its citizens. Residents of Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah were punished for their evil ways; voters in the […] -
Climate Change Weekly #525: Data Indicate Climate Change Won’t Slow Crop Yield Increases
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. -
PRESS RELEASE: The Heartland Institute Comments on East Coast Smoke from Canadian Wildfires
Opinion -Press Release -As a result of prevailing wind currents, seasonal wildfires in Canada are blanketing East Cost American cities with smoke, triggering air quality alerts. -
The West’s War on Economic Activity: EU Edition
Opinion -I have spent these past decades cataloging the United States’ many decades of ever-increasing idiocy. -
SCHIP Spending Battle Continues
Opinion -The battle on Capitol Hill over how much to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) hit a roadblock on November 13 when President George W. -
The Myth of the Climate Change ‘97%’
Opinion -There is no basis for the claim that 97% of scientists believe that man-made climate change is a dangerous problem. -
Health Care Costs Are Rising Slower than Expected, Three Surveys Show
Opinion -A number of consulting firms, including Mercer, Aon, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, are reporting a slowing of health care cost increases around the nation. The firms report costs have increased between 6 and 11 percent over the past year. -
Less Government Involvement Holds Key to Affordable Health Insurance, Experts Say
Opinion -Experts are pointing to the troubling growth of health care costs to justify making cost containment, rather than covering the uninsured, legislators’ top priority in 2009, citing excessive mandates and a lack of consumer control of health care as -
Administration Backs Down on Enforcement of New SCHIP Rules
Opinion -Congressional action on reforming the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is on hold until 2009, analysts say, and one reform that had been decided on has been scuttled. -
Congress Delays Action on SCHIP and Medicare Reforms
Opinion -In response to presidential vetoes, Congress has set aside action on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and Medicare until at least the middle of 2008. -
Democrats Speak Out on Health Care Plans
Opinion -According to the Democratic presidential candidates, the current U.S. health care system ought to focus more than it does on disease prevention to save billions of dollars in treatment costs. -
U.S. House Defeats Effort to Override SCHIP Veto
Opinion -On October 18, the U.S. House of Representatives defeated an effort to override President George W. Bush's veto of H.R. 976, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007.