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Study: Two-Thirds of Medicaid Expansion Enrollees Were Already Eligible
Opinion -The finding implies the federal government has been paying far more than its share under the Affordable Care Act. -
New Mexico Mandates Districts Consider Attendance in Teacher Evaluations
Opinion -The New Mexico Public Education Department has changed its teacher evaluation system to mandate teacher attendance as a factor in rating teachers. -
President Obama Bans Offshore Drilling in North Atlantic and Arctic
Opinion -With only a month left in his term of office, President Barack Obama banned, possibly permanently, offshore oil and gas drilling in federal waters off the Atlantic coast and in the Arctic Ocean. -
Natural Gas Is The Future Of Energy, And It’s Not Even Close
Opinion -Natural gas is the wave of the future in U.S. and global electricity production, with no other power source even close to matching natural gas’s potential over the next few decades. -
Teachers Unions Given an Extra Week to Criticize Betsy DeVos
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #165 -
Why Republicans Should Let ObamaCare Self Destruct
Opinion -The Trump Administration and the Republican Congress is faced with a crisis in the Affordable Care Act. -
School Choice Must Continue To Be A Local Decision
Opinion -The morning after the Senate Committee held a confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, a more important development on the choice front came from down Florida way. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Today’s ‘Day of Denial’ Protests by Radical Environmental Groups
Opinion -"Few people are better suited to undertake the radical reforms necessary to bring the federal regulatory behemoth to heel." - H. Sterling Burnett -
PRESS RELEASE: Fred Palmer Joins The Heartland Institute as Senior Fellow
Opinion -‘I am deeply honored by The Heartland Institute to be asked to serve as senior fellow on energy and climate.’ — Frederick D. Palmer -
Pipelines Are Safer than ‘Safe Sex’: a Brief Guide to Understanding Pipeline Safety
Opinion -Pipeline opponents say the spill is proof pipelines cannot be operated safely, but the truth is pipelines are much safer than many other human activities, including “safe sex.” -
Oklahoma’s Largest Online Charter School Sees Record Growth
Opinion -Enrollment in Oklahoma’s first online charter school has grown by nearly 200 percent during the past three years. -
Purdue Researchers Find GMO Ban Would Result in Higher Food Prices and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Opinion -According to Purdue University researchers a global GMO ban would result in higher carbon dioxide emissions and cost billions of dollar in lost welfare. -
Federal Judge Dismisses Insurer Lawsuit for ACA Risk-Corridor Payment
Opinion -The ruling could bode ill for insurers alleging taxpayers owe them an $8 billion bailout. -
Poverty, Hunger, and US Agricultural Policy
Opinion -This study shows, farm policies initially implemented to increase farm incomes while making food affordable for the poor do not improve the most vulnerable Americans’ access to affordable and nutritious food. -
Reality-based Climate Forecasting
Opinion -Continuing to focus on carbon dioxide as the driving force will just bring more bogus predictions. -
Yes, Mr. President, You Must Enforce the Laws You Don’t Like
Opinion -Must the president enforce all laws, even those he disapproves of? -
Is Economics a Hard Science?
Opinion -For starters, we know it’s not astrophysics… -
Climate Change 101: Evidence Humans Aren’t Destroying the Climate
Opinion -Evidence suggests human greenhouse-gas emissions are having only a very small impact on global climate, with virtually all the alarmists’ model predictions routinely failing to match reality. -
Education Policymakers Should Consider Kids’ Happiness by Giving Parents More Power
Opinion -Winter has officially come, and children across the country will spend the next few months stuck in classrooms, gazing longingly out the window while they eagerly wait for spring break. -
The Elon Musk Myth Looks To Contaminate Texas
Opinion -The Myth of Elon Musk is that of daring entrepreneur. An avant garde, cutting edge businessman who sees a little bit further around the curve of the Earth – to get a glimpse of the Next Big Thing before the rest of us are able see it. -
Oregon Voters Approve Funding for Outdoor School
Opinion -Fifty-thousand Oregon 5th and 6th graders will attend Outdoor School each year now that voters have approved a ballot measure allocating state lottery money to the program. -
Oklahoma Voters Reject ‘Teacher Caucus’ Candidates
Opinion -Oklahoma voters voiced their support for education choice in November 2016, rejecting most of the candidates running on a platform of limiting choice to public schools. -
GAO Testimony: Low Oil Prices Keeping U.S. from Meeting Federal Renewable Fuel Mandates
Opinion -Government officials admitted in Senate testimony U.S. ethanol producers have failed to meet federal renewable fuels mandates and biofuel production has failed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. -
North Carolina Health Insurer Requests $362 Million in Obamacare Loss Payouts
Opinion -The insurer is a casualty of the Affordable Care Act risk corridor program.
