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  • No. 104 – Opportunities and Benefits from Pork Industry Organization (News Release)

    Published October 20, 2004
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    Quick Links Executive Summary (html) Executive Summary (pdf) Policy Study (pdf) Changes in consumer demand for pork products over the past 20 years have led to rapid changes in the way hogs are produced and marketed.

  • Vaccine Shortage Is Bad Omen

    Published October 11, 2004
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    The Health and Human Services (HHS) health care bureaucracy has, for the third time in five years, demonstrated itself incapable of protecting the public health by delivering an inadequate supply of flu vaccine.

  • Does the Pork Industry Need More Government Intervention?

    Published October 7, 2004
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    Concerns about consolidation in the pork industry, unequal bargaining power, poorly written contracts, and inadequate dispute settlement procedures have led members of state legislatures and the U.S.

  • Pork Industry Integration Benefits Everyone

    Published October 7, 2004
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    The pork industry, like other parts of the U.S. economy, is undergoing rapid change due to changing technology, demands from consumers, and methods of organizing production.

  • Virtual Integration Takes Hold in the Pork Industry

    Published October 6, 2004
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    In livestock marketing 30 years ago, the only information sent by processors to producers was the market price obtained when the animals were sold for slaughter. By that time, there was nothing the producer could do to change the animals.

  • Health Care Reform Expert Sally Pipes in Chicago for Two Events on October 18th

    Published October 5, 2004
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    (Chicago, IL) The Heartland Institute welcomes health care reform expert and author Sally C. Pipes to the Windy City on Monday, October 18, for a luncheon event and after-work reception.

  • Specialty Surgical Hospitals Deliver Quality Care and Comfort

    Published October 1, 2004
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    The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, best known for delivering prescription drug coverage to seniors, also contained a little-known 18-month moratorium on the development of new physician- and investor-owned surgical

  • Soda Pop Media Feeding Frenzy

    Published October 1, 2004
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    An article in the August 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), "Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, Weight Gain, and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in Young and Middle-Aged Women," adds yet another chapter to the feeding frenzy that

  • New Statistics on the Individual Insurance Market

    Published October 1, 2004
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    On August 2, the Kaiser Family Foundation held a briefing with eHealthInsurance on the individual market. An important new report, Update on Individual Health Insurance, was issued in conjunction with the briefing.

  • A Vision Realized: Atlanta’s Tech High Charter School

    Published October 1, 2004
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    More than three years after the Georgia Public Policy Foundation (GPPF) first began laying the groundwork for an innovative math, science, and technology charter high school in the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) system, Tech High Charter School started its

  • Feminists Are Challenged to Support School Choice

    Published October 1, 2004
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    Feminist groups are out of touch with women on the issue of education, concludes a new study by Carrie L. Lukas for the Independent Women's Forum (IWF).

  • Students Pin Achievement Gap on Teachers with Low Expectations

    Published October 1, 2004
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    In the recent Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Towards the Public Schools, three of four Americans (74 percent) attributed the achievement gap between white students and black and Latino students to factors other than schooling.

  • California’s Draconian Auto-Emission Standards Won’t Reduce Global Warming

    Published October 1, 2004
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    California's state legislature is currently considering a proposal to limit carbon dioxide emissions from cars and trucks in hopes of staving off global warming. Gov.

  • English Immersion Yields Gains in Arizona

    Published October 1, 2004
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    Arizona's Department of Education has released data showing that children in Structured English Immersion classes learn at a swifter pace than children assigned to bilingual education programs in which they receive instruction in their non-English native

  • Polls Show Vouchers Are Popular and Would Be Widely Used

    Published October 1, 2004
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    Only 42 percent of Americans polled in the latest Phi Delta Kappa International/Gallup Poll say they are in favor of vouchers.

  • Global Warming Computer Models Seriously Flawed, Studies Show

    Published October 1, 2004
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    How many times have we heard from former Vice President Al Gore and assorted European politicians that "the science is settled" on global warming? In other words, it's "time for action.

  • Open Letter from Conservatives for Balanced Electricity Reform

    Published October 1, 2004
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    Editor's note: Senator Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico) has suggested imposing a new tax on the nuclear power industry to fund an alleged budget shortfall for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

  • Environmental Groups Distort Bush Record

    Published October 1, 2004
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    As the November elections draw near, many environmental activist groups are actively misrepresenting President George W. Bush's environmental policy record and focusing their attacks on issues affecting key electoral-vote battlegrounds in the West.

  • Texas Court Gives Cave Bugs More Rights than Humans

    Published October 1, 2004
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    In 1983, Dr. Fred Purcell and his brother purchased an interest in 216 acres in Travis County near Austin, Texas. The property lies within 1,200 acres that sit at the intersection of two major highways in a rapidly growing commercial and residential area.

  • Maine Health Insurance: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire

    Published October 1, 2004
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    In June 2003, Maine Governor John Baldacci (D) signed the Dirigo Health Reform Act, creating a government-run, taxpayer-funded health insurance and medical care program for the state.

  • Konig Named Health Care News Managing Editor

    Published October 1, 2004
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    Journalist Susan Konig was named managing editor of Health Care News in September. The December 2004 issue will be the first under her management, as November is a scheduled "skip month" for the newspaper.

  • Teach for America Shows Its Mettle

    Published October 1, 2004
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    An independent evaluation of Teach for America (TFA) has confirmed the value of placing bright, liberally educated college graduates as teachers in some of the nation's most troubled elementary and secondary schools.

  • Amistad Charter School Shows the Way

    Published October 1, 2004
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    When measured against the academic performance of the average white student in Connecticut, the results achieved by the eighth-graders at Amistad Academy in New Haven are, well, just average.

  • Renewable Energy Mandates Raise Prices and Cost States Jobs

    Published October 1, 2004
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    After repeatedly failing to convince the Colorado legislature to enact a renewable energy mandate, anti-fossil fuel activists have succeeded in placing such a mandate on the November ballot.

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