Policy Briefs
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Climate Change, Energy Policy, and National Power
Publication -Policy Briefs -Global warming alarmism threatens U.S. national power and national security, say Admiral Thomas B. Hayward, Vice Admiral Edward S. Briggs, and Captain Donald K. Forbes. -
A Better Medicare for Seniors and Taxpayers
Publication -Policy Briefs -Of all the entitlement programs in the U.S. requiring reform, Medicare – the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older – presents the most difficult problem of all. -
AMS Survey Shows No Consensus on Global Warming
Publication -Policy Briefs -In a November 2013 Heartland Institute Policy Brief, Heartland President Joseph Bast examines an American Meteorological Survey of its members which found only 39.5% of those who responded say they believe man-made global warming is dangerous. -
Scientific Critique of IPCC’s 2013 ‘Summary for Policymakers’
Publication -Policy Briefs -The Summary for Policymakers released in September by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is filled with concessions that its past predictions were too extreme and misleading and unscientific language, according to a team of -
U.S. Cybersecurity Policy: Problems and Principles
Publication -Policy Briefs -Cybercrime and cyberattacks are genuine threats, with reports of data breaches, hacks, or thefts appearing regularly in the news. -
Social Security Personal Accounts: Prosperity for All
Publication -Policy Briefs -This essay is the third of a series of Heartland Policy Briefs by the author on entitlement reform. The baby boom generation already has begun to retire on Social Security and Medicare. -
The Foundation for Entitlement Reform: Get America Booming Again
Publication -Policy Briefs -This essay is the second of a series of Heartland Policy Briefs by the author on entitlement reform.Today’s stagnant economy is both unnecessary and, well, un-American. The U.S. economy sustained a real rate of annual economic growth of 3. -
Making Texas Public Education More Efficient: Taxpayer Savings Grant Program
Publication -Policy Briefs -This Policy Brief summarizes past research and presents new analysis showing how a proposal called the Taxpayer Savings Grant Program (TSGP) would enable the state of Texas to comply with its constitutional mandate to “establish and make suitable -
Uranium Mining in Virginia: Environmental and Safety Considerations
Publication -Policy Briefs -A new report written by one of the nation’s leading authorities on groundwater hydrology and nuclear energy says uranium mining in Virginia can take place safely and with minimal environmental impact. -
A Winning Plan for Entitlement Reform
Publication -Policy Briefs -This essay is the first of a series of Heartland Policy Briefs that addresses entitlement reform. In this document he writes that, Soon after World War II, U.S. -
Wisconsin’s Act 10: Saving Schools from the Fiscal Cliff
Publication -Policy Briefs -Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s Act 10 is working. -
The Streetcar Fantasy
Publication -Policy Briefs -Plans to build streetcar lines in San Antonio are based on several critical fallacies, including claims that streetcars are superior to buses in their ability to attract riders and that streetcars promote economic development. -
Pricewaterhouse Coopers’ ‘Too Late’ Report: Poor Science, No Practical Solutions
Publication -Policy Briefs -A new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), titled Too Late for Two Degrees? -
The Parent Trigger: Justification and Design Guidelines
Publication -Policy Briefs -Sometimes, it seems as though the debate over school reform takes place in an alternate universe where time passes but nothing really changes. -
The Parent Trigger: Justification and Design Guidelines
Publication -Policy Briefs -Sometimes, it seems as though the debate over school reform takes place in an alternate universe where time passes but nothing really changes. -
Seven Educational Reasons to Oppose San Antonio’s Pre-K Plan
Publication -Policy Briefs -On November 6, San Antonio voters will decide whether to increase their sales tax by 1/8th cent to generate $280 million over a period of eight years. Revenue from the tax increase would fund a new city educational corporation. -
21 Reasons Why the San Antonio Pre-K Tax Plan Is a Bad Idea
Publication -Policy Briefs -On November 6, voters in San Antonio, Texas will vote on whether the city should own and operate a network of early childhood education centers. The initiative is controversial, and rightly so. -
The Ryan Budget vs. the Obama Budget
Publication -Policy Briefs -By selecting House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his running mate, Republican candidate Mitt Romney reframed the 2012 presidential election as a contest between Ryan’s 2013 proposed budget, which was adopted by the entire Republican -
The Ryan Budget vs. the Obama Budget
Publication -Policy Briefs -By selecting House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his running mate, Republican candidate Mitt Romney reframed the 2012 presidential election as a contest between Ryan’s 2013 proposed budget, which was adopted by the entire Republican -
Implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Publication -Policy Briefs -In this Heartland policy brief, Dan Pilla asserts that unless there is a substantial change in leadership in Washington in the next election, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will go into effect as planned. The U.S. -
How Should Insurers Treat Tobacco Use? A Review of the Research
Publication -Policy Briefs -For insurers, the most salient fact about tobacco use can be summarized simply: overwhelming scientificevidence indicates that all widely used forms of tobacco harm human health. -
Wisconsin’s Act 10: A Partial Fix for the State Budget Deficit
Publication -Policy Briefs -Wisconsin Act 10, Gov. Scott Walker’s landmark budget and unionization reform bill, has allowed school districts across the state to balance budgets without teacher layoffs, according to a new report from The Heartland Institute. -
Shades of EPA: The Flawed Human Health Effects Epidemiology in the California Air Resources Board’s Diesel Truck Emission Rules
Publication -Policy Briefs -On December 12, 2009, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), a subdivision of the California Environmental Protection Agency, published its final rule to reduce diesel exhaust emissions in the state, the “Goods Movement Emission Reduction Plan” -
Property Tax Levies in Cook County, Illinois: An Analysis
Publication -Policy Briefs -IntroductionThe economic recession that began in 2007 exposed and aggravated a government fiscal crisis that had been brewing for many years at the national, state, and municipal levels of the U.S.
