Public school choice can throw wide the doors of opportunity for thousands of Alabama’s children who do not learn best by sitting in a classroom for seven hours a day, for the students who crave a challenge, and for the parents of kids stuck in failing schools who desperately want to provide a better life for their daughters and sons. 

On February 28, 2013, the Alabama State Legislature passed The Alabama Accountability Act, which established a tax credit scholarship program for Alabama.

A detailed list of policy recommendations for the Arkansas 2013 session that will move the state toward lower taxes, free markets, limited government, and more personal freedom.

“The Mackinac Center has said right-to-work was right for Michigan for more than 20 years,” President Joseph G. Lehman said. “This victory that workers celebrate today shows the power an idea can have when it is pursued with principle and persistence.”

The Illinois Policy Institute’s previous Illinois Piglet reports highlighted wasteful spending at the state level. The 2012 Illinois Piglet Book continues that focus but also places an emphasis on spending occurring at the local level in Illinois. This allows Illinoisans to see the waste that’s happening in their own communities.

As part of a push to contain health care cost growth, business leaders, state administrators, and policymakers should focus on Consumer Driven Health Care (CDHC) plans that involve consumers in making health care decisions.This is the first in a series of reports by Pioneer’s Center for Health Care Solutions aimed at improving patient-centered approaches to limiting health care costs in Massachusetts.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—or “Obamacare”— will take more than$500 billion from American taxpayers by 2022, raise costs to state governments and increase the cost of private health insurance. Here’s a look at the numbers for Pennsylvania taxpayers.

As the Oklahoma governor and state lawmakers look to do something great in 2013, here are a half-dozen ideas to consider.

The Clean Air Act under which the EPA conducts risk assessment and sets national standards needs to stipulate minimal criteria for scientific risk assessment of health effects, sufficiently robust to guide decisions on air quality standards.

State education funding is designed to ensure a base amount of money is available to every student in Illinois. To that end, the state strives to send more money to poor districts and less money to districts with a healthy property tax base. But a bird’s eye view of Illinois education spending reveals that the state’s intention of sending dollars to poorer districts is blunted by the state’s obligation to pay local teachers’ pensions.

On Monday, the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota released an Accountability Alert that showed three Minnesota environmental non-profit advocacy groups received nearly half a million dollars in out-of-state funding to oppose the Keystone oil pipeline project. The funding, provided by a well-known liberal California foundation, is surprising, since Keystone’s proposed route does not include Minnesota.