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Republicans and Democrats in Washington, DC, are busy attacking each other’s preferred healthcare programs, but neither party has a good replacement for their targets. Instead of trying to abolish insurance they don’t like, they should take four steps that would lead the nation down the path toward excellent and affordable health coverage.
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By Tate Fegley (Inside Sources, 7/13/20)
In large cities across the United States, police unions have been a major barrier in the quest to hold individual law-enforcement officers more accountable for abusing civilians. The best remedy may be for cities to negotiate union contracts that give police officers greater compensation in exchange for greater legal liability for misconduct.
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By Ze’ev Wurman, David M. Steiner, Ashley Rogers Berner, and R. James Milgram (Independent Institute, 7/2/20)
Education reformers searching for a better approach to K-12 instruction should look to Florida. The Sunshine State’s new standards in English language arts and mathematics are the best in the nation.
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By Williamson M. Evers (The Orange County Register, 7/7/20)
California’s 2019 law stifling many independent contractors is particularly harmful to workers and consumers when the economy is under severe strain. Legislators should look back at the laws restricting labor mobility and flexibility enacted after the plague swept through 14th century Europe, restrictions that prevented Eastern Europe from developing as quickly as its less restrictive Western counterpart.
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By Richard K. Vedder (Forbes, 7/5/20)
In the last three decades of the 20th century, more than 60 percent of the winners of scientifically related Nobel Prizes had some prior involvement with American universities, either as graduate students or professors. Yet after peaking at around 70 percent in the 1990s, that proportion has fallen.
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Volume 22, Issue 28: July 22, 2020
By John C. Goodman (Forbes, 6/29/20)
Republicans and Democrats in Washington, DC, are busy attacking each other’s preferred healthcare programs, but neither party has a good replacement for their targets. Instead of trying to abolish insurance they don’t like, they should take four steps that would lead the nation down the path toward excellent and affordable health coverage.
READ MORE »
By Tate Fegley (Inside Sources, 7/13/20)
In large cities across the United States, police unions have been a major barrier in the quest to hold individual law-enforcement officers more accountable for abusing civilians. The best remedy may be for cities to negotiate union contracts that give police officers greater compensation in exchange for greater legal liability for misconduct.
READ MORE »
By Ze’ev Wurman, David M. Steiner, Ashley Rogers Berner, and R. James Milgram (Independent Institute, 7/2/20)
Education reformers searching for a better approach to K-12 instruction should look to Florida. The Sunshine State’s new standards in English language arts and mathematics are the best in the nation.
READ MORE »
By Williamson M. Evers (The Orange County Register, 7/7/20)
California’s 2019 law stifling many independent contractors is particularly harmful to workers and consumers when the economy is under severe strain. Legislators should look back at the laws restricting labor mobility and flexibility enacted after the plague swept through 14th century Europe, restrictions that prevented Eastern Europe from developing as quickly as its less restrictive Western counterpart.
READ MORE »
Open Letter to Suspend California AB-5
From 153 Economists and Political Scientists in California
From 153 Economists and Political Scientists in California
By Williamson M. Evers, David J. Theroux
By Richard K. Vedder (Forbes, 7/5/20)
In the last three decades of the 20th century, more than 60 percent of the winners of scientifically related Nobel Prizes had some prior involvement with American universities, either as graduate students or professors. Yet after peaking at around 70 percent in the 1990s, that proportion has fallen.
READ MORE »
The Beacon: New Blog Posts
- California Tunnel Vision Survives the Pandemic, by K. Lloyd Billingsley
- The Treason of the Intellectuals, by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
- The “Prominent Hole” in CDC Epidemic Intelligence, by K. Lloyd Billingsley
- Goya Foods, Free Speech, and Pluralism, by William J. Watkins, Jr.
- The Devil in the PPP’s Bailout Details, by Craig Eyermann
- The Rich Say: Tax Us More to Fight COVID-19, by Randall G. Holcombe
Catalyst: New Articles
- Removing Regulations in Response to COVID-19, by Conor Norris
- How ‘Self-Censorship’ Hurts Free Speech, by Brad Polumbo
- How Sweden Faced COVID-19 Without Lockdowns, by Jon Miltimore
- We Should Fund Students Instead of School Systems, by Corey A. Deangelis
