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November 14, 2019
Commentary: Thanks to Trump, Seven Million Americans Have Quit Food Stamps
By Christopher Talgo
The booming economy is the primary driver of the dramatic decrease.
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November 14, 2019
Medicare for All Would Be Quite Costly to Middle Class Americans After All
By Christopher Talgo
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, like most of the Democrats running for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination, is all-in on Medicare for All (M4A).
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November 14, 2019
Attacks on Direct Primary Care Shows How Government Is Steamrolling Our Lives
By AnneMarie Schieber
With every week that passes, another direct primary care (DPC) practice opens its doors. 
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November 14, 2019
Warren’s Plans Have One Thing in Common: More Government Control
By Christopher Talgo
Like most socialists, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a leading candidate for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination, is a huge fan of government “plans.”
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November 14, 2019
Health Insurance Participation Rates Show Federal Reforms Are Working
By Brian Blase
The latest U.S. Census Bureau survey shows a sizable increase in the number of Americans without health insurance.
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November 13, 2019
Carrying for the Kids
By Larry Sand
An analysis of school shootings by the U.S. Secret Service doesn’t really tell us anything new.
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November 13, 2019
CalEPA Studying Ways to Sunset the California Economy
By Ronald Stein, P.E.
California is about to take one giant step toward following Germany’s failed climate goals which should be a wake-up all for governments everywhere.
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November 13, 2019
Facing Enrollment Declines, Pennsylvania Freezes State University Tuition
By Brandon Best
The tuition freeze is only the second in the 36-year history of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
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November 13, 2019
Interview: Health Care Is Less Expensive When Consumers Pay Directly
A view on consumer-driven health plans and how they can reduce cost and lead to better care.
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November 12, 2019
Was There Another Reason for Electricity Shutdowns in California?
By Richard J. Trzupek
According to the official, widely reported story, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) shut down substantial portions of its electric transmission system in northern California as a precautionary measure.
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November 12, 2019
Temporary Federal Spending Law Averts Government Shutdown
By Jesse Hathaway
The bill continuing resolution gave Congress more time to reach an agreement on federal spending for fiscal year 2020, which began October 1.
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November 12, 2019
Michigan Road Fix Could Require Gas-Tax Hike ‘Close to 80 Cents,’ States DOT Director
By Bonner R. Cohen
Gov. Whitmer has struggled to find the $2.5 billion annually she has said is necessary to “fix the damn roads.”
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November 12, 2019
Economics Is the Great Reality Check
By Jeffrey Tucker
There is a sense these days, whether in politics or academia, that people should shape their own realities and each result is as valid or real as any other.
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November 12, 2019
The Most Beautiful Disruption in Media
By Jeffrey Tucker
On Tuesday, Disney will release an amazing thing that no one on the planet could have anticipated 10 years ago: a service that streams Disney programming on the Internet available to subscribers for $7 per month.
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November 12, 2019
Michigan Considers Tax Break for Live Organ Donors
By Ashley Herzog
The Michigan Legislature is considering granting a $5,000 tax credit to those who donate a kidney or part of their liver to a patient in need.
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November 12, 2019
Kidney Patients Die Despite Plenty of Donated Organs, Study Finds
By Ashley Herzog
About 10,000 patients with kidney disease die from renal failure each year in the United States, and a new study shows it’s not for lack of organ donors.
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November 11, 2019
MEDIA ADVISORY: Trump’s Former Science Advisor Will Happer Featured in Climate Forum at COP25 in Madrid
By Jim Lakely
President Donald Trump’s former top science advisor Dr. Will Happer will headline a lineup of climate experts speaking at The Heartland Institute’s climate realism forum December 3 in Spain.
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November 11, 2019
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to President Trump’s Planned Meeting with Vaping Industry
By Lindsey Stroud, Jeff Stier
“The president is truly seeing the industry as what it is: a billion-dollar powerhouse that not only employs people, but saves lives through tobacco harm reduction.” - Lindsey Stroud
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November 11, 2019
Expensive Climate Policies Sparked Chile Riots, Just Like France’s Yellow Vest Protests
By James Taylor
Climate activists and the United Nations are suffering a major black eye this week as protests and riots resulting from high energy prices have erupted in Santiago, Chile.
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November 11, 2019
The Chicago Teacher Union vs. Charter Schools
By Christopher Talgo
This is the second week of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) strike. It’s the second CTU strike in less than 10 years, and it’s having wide and far-ranging repercussions.
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November 11, 2019
A Tale of (Teaching in) Two Cities: Chicago, Illinois, and Charleston, South Carolina
By Christopher Talgo
CPS teachers are failing miserably in their mission. Maybe they should not be rewarded with more money, more posh positions, and all other sorts of treats.
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November 11, 2019
The Real Horror is the FDA's Drug Approval Process
By Christina Herrin
The FDA has unlimited power and control when it comes to the treatments and therapies terminally ill patients can access.
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November 11, 2019
Government Should Get Out of Exam Rooms When Ordering Vaccines
By AnneMarie Schieber
The nation has averted a so-called “public health crisis,” but that hasn’t stopped lawmakers from playing doctor.
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November 11, 2019
Five Reasons Why Warren’s Policies Will Destroy Freedom as We Know It
By Christopher Talgo
When people take a deep dive into Warren’s policy views, they might want to think twice about supporting her run for the nomination. Here are five reasons why Warren should stay as far from the White House as possible
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November 11, 2019
Florida teachers are adequately compensated, State legislators should look for other, truly effective ways to improve school outcomes.
By Tim Benson
Florida teachers are adequately compensated, State legislators should look for other, truly effective ways to improve school outcomes.
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November 11, 2019
Heartland Weekly: Warren Health Care Plan is Devastating
By Jim Lakely
Week of November 4, 2019
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November 11, 2019
California Increases Telemedicine Payments to Reduce Medicaid Costs
By Bonner R. Cohen
Medi-Cal, California’s sprawling Medicaid program, is working under new rules expanding reimbursement for telemedicine.
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November 10, 2019
Labor Department Proposes Industry-Led Apprenticeship Programs
By Ashley Bateman
Currently, the private sector is largely excluded from creating certified apprenticeship programs, which are led by unions and local and state government entities.
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November 8, 2019
Trump Says Good-Bye to Paris
By H. Sterling Burnett
Climate Change Weekly #341
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November 8, 2019
Commentary: E-Cig, Vaping Bans Keep People Smoking, Preserving Vital Government Revenue Stream
By Lindsey Stroud
Some states have turned future tobacco settlement payments into cash by issuing securities.
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November 8, 2019
Will UTLA Endorse Socialist Bernie Sanders?
By Larry Sand
The L.A. teachers union may officially support Bernie Sanders for president next week.
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November 8, 2019
Trump Administration Tackles California Air Quality, Threatens State’s Federal Highway Funds
By Kenneth Artz
The United States Environmental Protection Agency warned California’s agency charged with ensuring the state’s air quality warning the state could face federal sanctions if it did not rapidly submit complete required state air quality plans.
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November 7, 2019
Report: Unsubsidized Individuals Are Fleeing the Obamacare Exchanges
By Bonner R. Cohen
The Obamacare exchanges are having an increasingly difficult time keeping people who must pay the full premiums out of their own pockets, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report.
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November 6, 2019
Iowa Governor Blocks State’s Attorney General from Joining Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Power Rule
By Kenneth Artz
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds denied the state's Attorney General permission to join a lawsuit filed by a number of states and cities challenging the Affordable Clean Energy rule.
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November 5, 2019
PRESS RELEASE: President Trump’s Pick to Lead FDA Offers Opportunity for Life-saving Reforms
By Bartley J. Madden, Christina Herrin, Edward Hudgins
We would all benefit if the new commissioner gives top priority to modernizing the FDA regulatory process in order to deliver on the primary objective of better drugs, sooner, at lower cost” - Bartley Madden
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November 5, 2019
Ann Arbor Agrees to Limit Scope of Anti-Discrimination Ordinance
By Juliana Knot
A Michigan city has agreed not to use its expansive anti-discrimination law against two political strategists.
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November 5, 2019
Illinois Mandates Insurance Coverage of EpiPens for Children, Teens
By Ashley Herzog
Illinois is the first state to mandate insurance coverage of epinephrine injectors, more commonly known as EpiPens, for children.
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November 4, 2019
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Trump Officially Pulling Out of Paris Climate Accord
By H. Sterling Burnett
"Trump set the United States on the road to energy independence with his regulatory reforms. Now he is boosting U.S. sovereignty and putting Americans first by withdrawing us from the Paris climate agreement." - H. Sterling Burnett
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November 4, 2019
Free-Market Liberalism vs. Corrupted “Capitalism” and La-La Land Socialism
By Richard Ebeling
One of the issues that confronts the friends of freedom is how best to make the case for liberty as a political idea and ideal and as a policy proposal.
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November 4, 2019
Is it Climate Socialism – or Eco-fascism?
By Paul Driessen
Green New Deal climate alarm socialism is really intolerant, totalitarian eco-fascism.
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