Publications
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Research & Commentary: New Jersey Renewable Portfolio Standard
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The New Jersey Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) requires all state utilities serving retail customers to procure 22.5 percent of the electricity they sell from renewable sources by 2021. -
Research & Commentary: Common Core Math Standards
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The United States scores below the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average in mathematics literacy, behind 29 other nations, predominantly from Europe. -
Research & Commentary: New Jersey Renewable Portfolio Standard
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The New Jersey Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) requires all state utilities serving retail customers to procure 22.5 percent of the electricity they sell from renewable sources by 2021. -
The Leaflet: The Heartland Institute Stands with ALEC
Publication -The Leaflet -The Heartland Institute Stands with ALEC On Monday, September 22, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt announced, on an NPR appearance, his company was cutting ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council over the group’s position on “climate -
Research & Commentary: Common Core Math Standards
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The United States scores below the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average in mathematics literacy, behind 29 other nations, predominantly from Europe. -
The Leaflet: Back to School on Higher Ed Reform
Publication -The Leaflet -Back to School on Higher Ed ReformEducation issues always get a boost in media coverage when the new school year begins. But that boost is intensified even more when it's also an election year. -
Research & Commentary: Chattanooga Municipal Broadband Expansion
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The electric utility company running Chattanooga, Tennessee’s municipal broadband recently filed a petition to override a state law that prevents it from offering broadband data and video services to residents and businesses outside its electricity -
Research & Commentary: Mississippi Franchise Tax Repeal
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A tax reform proposal being floated in Mississippi could eliminate the state’s franchise tax, which is levied on businesses and partnerships chartered within the state. Mississippi is one of 18 states with a franchise tax. -
Research & Commentary: Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act and the Grandfather Clause
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Congressional leaders are now looking to move the vote on extending the moratorium on state and local taxation of Internet access and on discriminatory taxes on emails and other data to the lame duck session and push to attach to it the unpopular, -
Research & Commentary: The Clean Water Act
Publication -Research and Commentaries -After creating the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Congress passed numerous landmark environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act (CWA), which achieved a bipartisan majority in 1972. -
Research & Commentary: Common Core English Language Arts Standards
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Common Core State Standards, a grade-by-grade set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children should know in each grade in math and English language arts (ELA), have been said to establish “rigorous” and “internationally -
The Leaflet: Coming Soon: The Heartland Institute’s Updated Welfare Reform Report Card
Publication -The Leaflet -Coming Soon: The Heartland Institute’s Updated Welfare Reform Report CardOn Tuesday, September 23 The Wall Street Journal published a column titled “A Republican War on Poverty” by Heartland Senior Fellow Gary MacDougal, author of Make a Difference: A -
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. -
Research & Commentary: Endangered Species Act Repeal and Replace
Publication -Research and Commentaries -In 1973, Congress passed and President Richard M. Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The law is administered by the Interior Department’s U.S. -
The Leaflet: Republican Governors Consider Expanding Medicaid
Publication -The Leaflet -Republican Governors Consider Expanding MedicaidStates across the country continue to debate whether to expand their Medicaid programs under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). To date, 10 Republican governors have supported expansion. -
Research & Commentary: Lessons of Kansas’s Income Tax Reforms
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Kansas has taken several steps in recent years to bring down its tax burden and make the state more competitive for new jobs and businesses. In 2012, Gov. -
Research & Commentary: Gov. Mike Pence’s Medicaid Expansion
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Expanding Medicaid can have repercussions beyond state budgets and the health care industry. Increasing government spending has a direct effect on the economy, shifting dollars that would have been spent in the private economy into state programs. -
Research & Commentary: Lessons of Kansas’s Income Tax Reforms
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Kansas has taken several steps in recent years to bring down its tax burden and make the state more competitive for new jobs and businesses. In 2012, Gov. -
The Leaflet: Telemedicine Can Provide Better Health Care at a Lower Cost
Publication -The Leaflet -Telemedicine Can Provide Better Health Care at a Lower CostAs more people acquire health insurance, the discussion about how to offer better access to care at a reasonable cost becomes ever more pertinent. -
Research & Commentary: New Mexico Renewable Portfolio Standard
Publication -Research and Commentaries -In 2002, New Mexico implemented a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) requiring investor-owned utilities to procure from renewable sources 10 percent of the electricity they sell. Utilities were supposed to have met that mandate by 2011. In 2007, then-Gov. -
Research & Commentary: Wisconsin Common Core
Publication -Research and Commentaries -On July 17, 2014, Wisconsin Gov. -
Research & Commentary: Ohio Common Core
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Ohio legislators are debating HB 597, which if approved would repeal the state’s implementation of the Common Core State Standards, a set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children should know in each grade in math and English. -
The Leaflet: Ride-sharing Regulations Are Still an Issue for States
Publication -The Leaflet -Ride-sharing Regulations Are Still an Issue for StatesOn Monday, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn vetoed a bill that would have established onerous statewide regulations on ride-sharing services that compete with taxis such as Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar. -
Public Comment to the FCC on the Application of Comcast Corporation, Time Warner Cable Inc., Charter Communications, Inc., and SpinCo to Assign and Transfer Control of FCC Licenses and Other Authorizations
Publication -Testimony -Federal Communications Commission445 12th Street S.W.Washington, D.C. 20554 RE: Commission Seeks Comment on Application of Comcast Corporation, Time Warner Cable Inc., Charter Communications, Inc.