Publications
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The Leaflet: Employer Mandate Hinders Business Success and Growth
Publication -The Leaflet -Employer Mandate Hinders Business Success and GrowthOn October 7, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. -
Testimony to the Baltimore Judiciary and Legislative Investigations Committee
Publication -Testimony -Distinguished members of the committee: Thank you for the opportunity to testify on the important topic of vapor products, which are commonly referred to as electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes. -
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 ... -
Research & Commentary: Corporate Tax Inversions
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The United States currently has the highest corporate tax rate among the 34 nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), in addition to being one of the few nations still using a “worldwide system. -
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.