Policy Briefs
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Roadmap for the 21st Century: Welfare Reform
Publication -Policy Briefs -The reforms outlined here would win the War on Poverty, end the poverty trap, and free the nation’s poor to become productive citizens and raise children prepared for better lives than their parents had. -
Roadmap for the 21st Century: Energy Deregulation
Publication -Policy Briefs -This paper -- the fifth in the Roadmap series -- describes the key role energy deregulation will play in launching an economic boom in the United States. -
Roadmap for the 21st Century: Monetary Policy
Publication -Policy Briefs -This paper -- the fourth in the Roadmap series -- lays out how the gold standard made America great … and why it is essential to making America great again. -
President-elect Trump’s Tax Plan
Publication -Policy Briefs -Dan Pilla – the author of 14 books and one of the nation’s leading experts on taxpayer rights and the Internal Revenue Service – unpacks the tax reform plan unveiled on the campaign trail by President-elect Donald Trump. -
Roadmap for the 21st Century: Introduction
Publication -Policy Briefs -The Roadmap for the 21st Century Project is a collaboration of free-market experts nationwide reflecting their views on the major public policy choices facing the nation, particularly those affecting economic growth and prosperity. -
Roadmap for the 21st Century: Budget and Tax
Publication -Policy Briefs -In other words, the economic policies adopted during the Obama years produced a sustained slower rate of economic growth that fundamentally transformed America into a nation on the path to becoming a third world country. -
Roadmap for the 21st Century: Health Care Reform
Publication -Policy Briefs -This Obamacare replacement plan would make good on the failed promises of Obamacare, assuring health care for all – with no employer mandate, no individual mandate, and trillions of dollars in reduced taxes, regulatory burdens, and federal spending. -
Assessing Toxicological Risks to Human Subjects Used in Controlled Exposure Studies of Environmental Pollutants
Publication -Policy Briefs -The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has been conducting experiments banned by international and domestic law exposing people to air pollution the EPA claims to be toxic or lethal. -
A Brief Assessment of the Proposed Convention Rules Adopted by the Assembly of State Legislatures
Publication -Policy Briefs -In June 2016 the Assembly of State Legislatures (ASL) issued its “Rules for an Article V Convention for Proposing Amendment(s).” The document is a recommended set of rules for a future amendments convention under Article V of the U.S. Constitution. -
Why the United States Has Suffered the Worst Economic Recovery Since the Great Depression
Publication -Policy Briefs -Nearly nine years ago, in December 2007, the United States fell into a recession from which most Americans think it has yet to recover. -
Saving Chicago Students: Strike Vouchers and SOS Accounts
Publication -Policy Briefs -The Heartland Policy Brief examines why teachers are threatening to strike, the history of teacher strikes in Illinois, and the performance and financial challenges faced by students, their parents, and the taxpayers of Illinois. -
Replacing Common Core: Choices and Tradeoffs
Publication -Policy Briefs -The coerced adoption of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) by 46 states across the United States, often without public input, has generated tremendous controversy, concern, and efforts to repeal the standards. -
Ten State Solutions to Emerging Issues
Publication -Policy Briefs -This booklet explores solutions to the top public policy issues facing the states in 2016 and beyond in the areas of budget and tax, education, energy and environment, health care, and constitutional reform. -
The Article V Movement: A Comprehensive Assessment to Date and Suggested Approach for State Legislators and Advocacy Groups Moving Forward
Publication -Policy Briefs -This Heartland Policy Brief is a comprehensive overview of the most consequential social movement occurring in the United States today: the Article V movement. -
Top 10 Global Warming Lies
Publication -Policy Briefs -It's not unusual for the environmental Left to make false assertions to attract media attention and raise money. But a recent mailer from the Environmental Defense Fund “may have set a new low,” writes Heartland Institute Senior Fellow James M. -
Best Options for Potential Nuclear Power Plant Closings in Illinois
Publication -Policy Briefs -Exelon claims three of its Illinois nuclear power plants are uneconomical and has asked the Illinois legislature to allow it to force ratepayers to pay more to keep them operating. The authors of a new Heartland Policy Brief say that would be a mistake. -
“A Critical Assessment of ‘Air concentrations of volatile compounds near oil and gas production: A community-based exploratory study’
Publication -Policy Briefs -In October 2014, Environmental Health published a study purporting to show fracking operations for oil and gas production cause dangerous air quality issues. -
Why Patent Reforms Are Needed
Publication -Policy Briefs -Patent abuse is harming the U.S. economy. It interferes with market competition, stymies entrepreneurs and innovators, and ultimately costs consumers in higher prices and decreased availability of products and features. -
Why Do Some Futures Contracts Succeed and Others Fail?
Publication -Policy Briefs -The history of futures contracts reveals their important economic role and impressive social benefits. The Crimean War of the 1850s and the U.S. -
Power to the People: Repealing and Replacing Obamacare with Patient Power
Publication -Policy Briefs -Promising “Voters will wildly and widely applaud replacing Obamacare with patient power,” Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara describes in a new Policy Brief the steps needed to do just that. -
Power to the People: Repealing and Replacing Obamacare with Patient Power
Publication -Policy Briefs -Promising “Voters will wildly and widely applaud replacing Obamacare with patient power,” Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara describes in a new Policy Brief the steps needed to do just that. -
Liberating the Poor from the Medicaid Ghetto
Publication -Policy Briefs -Medicaid is a massive federal-state entitlement program desperately in need of reform. Its mission is to provide health care to the poorest of the nation’s poor ... -
Merchants of Smear
Publication -Policy Briefs -For about two decades we’ve been told the science behind human-caused global warming is settled, and to ignore skeptic scientists because they’ve been paid by industry to manufacture doubt about the issue. -
Block Grants for All: Liberating the Poor and Taxpayers Alike
Publication -Policy Briefs -The remarkable success of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 – better known simply as “welfare reform” – is well known. Poverty among female-headed households fell by one-third, meaning nearly 4.
