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Five Facts on Police Reform Proposals. The recent conviction of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has once again put the spotlight on broader police reform efforts in Congress. SCHOOL DISRUPTED: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON K-12 EDUCATION The report explores an important factor throughout this phenomenon called “parent agency,” which is a parent’s ability to pursue changes in their child’s education when they believe change is warranted. Louisiana certainly was not shielded from the effects of COVID-19 on K-12 schooling and saw nearly 17,000 students leave thepublic
ILLINOIS' PENSION BOMB HAS A SHORT FUSE More than 1 in 10 Illinoisans – 1.1 million, or about 11.4% of the adult population – are members of an Illinois public pension system. Those government retirment systems are sitting on mountains of debt. There's $144 billion in debt just in the five statewide systems, by the state’s conservative estimate, or $261 billion by a more 3,309 NEW EARMARKS PROPOSED BY 324 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Last week, however, 3,309 earmarks from 220 Democrats and 104 Republicans were proposed. Pork is back on the table. The total tab for taxpayers is nearly $10 billion. We broke our investigation at Forbes where we also included links to our interactive map – we mapped all earmarks by congressional district. It’s a reminder ofwhy the
CONVICTED FORMER CONGRESSMAN STILL DRAWS ESTIMATED $1 After being sentenced to 10 years in prison for a 23-count conviction for racketeering, fraud and other corruption charges, disgraced former Congressman Chaka Fattah was released from prison last July after about one year.. But the icing on this crooked cake is that Fattah iscollecting a
$96 TRILLION IN UNFUNDED U.S. MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY While Uncle Sam has $5.9 trillion in assets, the $129 trillion owed in bills — including military and civilian retirement benefits — means the U.S. is in the hole for $123 trillion. Just the unfunded liabilities in Medicare and Social Security add up to $96 trillion. It is a stunning amount coming due over the next 75 years. $1 TRILLION IN NON-COVID-RELATED CORONAVIRUS “STIMULUS In FY2020, Congress appropriated $3 billion for Amtrak ($2 billion in annual appropriations, plus an additional $1 billion in the CARES Act COVID relief bill). In the three years before the pandemic, AMTRAK lost $392 million – even after a $5 billion taxpayer subsidy (FY2017-FY2019). Then there is the money for arts, libraries, andmuseums.
PEW: YOUNG, LIBERAL, WHITE WOMEN SUFFER MENTAL HEALTH Pew: Young, Liberal, White Women Suffer Mental Health Issues. Elizabeth Condra Evie Magazine April 15, 2021. Anastasia Shuraeva. It’s a common tactic of the politically charged on either side (and normally perceived as a cheap one at that) to take the particular adherents of an ideology and equate that diehard worship to mentalillness
THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR EXPANDED NATIONAL SERVICE Nobody seems to see national service as an intrinsically bad thing, at least in principle. Many even think it could be a positively good thing.But for the most part, today’s national service proposals tend either to be meager expansions of the current model exemplified by AmeriCorps and Teach for America, or unworkable mandatory and universal plans that might hurt the poor more than INEQUALITY AND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE Inequality and the Veil of Ignorance. By Courtney Such. August 09, 2015. America's income gap is much debated. But a new paper — invoking the famous "veil of ignorance" theory of philosopher John Rawls, who is much beloved on the left — suggests it may not be as dramatic as many believe. The paper suggests that global inequality,not
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Five Facts on Police Reform Proposals. The recent conviction of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has once again put the spotlight on broader police reform efforts in Congress. SCHOOL DISRUPTED: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON K-12 EDUCATION The report explores an important factor throughout this phenomenon called “parent agency,” which is a parent’s ability to pursue changes in their child’s education when they believe change is warranted. Louisiana certainly was not shielded from the effects of COVID-19 on K-12 schooling and saw nearly 17,000 students leave thepublic
ILLINOIS' PENSION BOMB HAS A SHORT FUSE More than 1 in 10 Illinoisans – 1.1 million, or about 11.4% of the adult population – are members of an Illinois public pension system. Those government retirment systems are sitting on mountains of debt. There's $144 billion in debt just in the five statewide systems, by the state’s conservative estimate, or $261 billion by a more 3,309 NEW EARMARKS PROPOSED BY 324 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Last week, however, 3,309 earmarks from 220 Democrats and 104 Republicans were proposed. Pork is back on the table. The total tab for taxpayers is nearly $10 billion. We broke our investigation at Forbes where we also included links to our interactive map – we mapped all earmarks by congressional district. It’s a reminder ofwhy the
CONVICTED FORMER CONGRESSMAN STILL DRAWS ESTIMATED $1 After being sentenced to 10 years in prison for a 23-count conviction for racketeering, fraud and other corruption charges, disgraced former Congressman Chaka Fattah was released from prison last July after about one year.. But the icing on this crooked cake is that Fattah iscollecting a
$96 TRILLION IN UNFUNDED U.S. MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY While Uncle Sam has $5.9 trillion in assets, the $129 trillion owed in bills — including military and civilian retirement benefits — means the U.S. is in the hole for $123 trillion. Just the unfunded liabilities in Medicare and Social Security add up to $96 trillion. It is a stunning amount coming due over the next 75 years. $1 TRILLION IN NON-COVID-RELATED CORONAVIRUS “STIMULUS In FY2020, Congress appropriated $3 billion for Amtrak ($2 billion in annual appropriations, plus an additional $1 billion in the CARES Act COVID relief bill). In the three years before the pandemic, AMTRAK lost $392 million – even after a $5 billion taxpayer subsidy (FY2017-FY2019). Then there is the money for arts, libraries, andmuseums.
PEW: YOUNG, LIBERAL, WHITE WOMEN SUFFER MENTAL HEALTH Pew: Young, Liberal, White Women Suffer Mental Health Issues. Elizabeth Condra Evie Magazine April 15, 2021. Anastasia Shuraeva. It’s a common tactic of the politically charged on either side (and normally perceived as a cheap one at that) to take the particular adherents of an ideology and equate that diehard worship to mentalillness
THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR EXPANDED NATIONAL SERVICE Nobody seems to see national service as an intrinsically bad thing, at least in principle. Many even think it could be a positively good thing.But for the most part, today’s national service proposals tend either to be meager expansions of the current model exemplified by AmeriCorps and Teach for America, or unworkable mandatory and universal plans that might hurt the poor more than INEQUALITY AND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE Inequality and the Veil of Ignorance. By Courtney Such. August 09, 2015. America's income gap is much debated. But a new paper — invoking the famous "veil of ignorance" theory of philosopher John Rawls, who is much beloved on the left — suggests it may not be as dramatic as many believe. The paper suggests that global inequality,not
WANT TO SOLVE THE IMMIGRATION CRISIS? INVEST IN THE 1 day ago · Vice President Kamala Harris visited Guatemala this week amid surges in U.S. border crossings, immigrants dying while trying to cross the border, and a chaotic, problematic federal response.It would be a mistake, though, to blame the Biden or Trump administrations for our current crisis: this is a crisis borne from the lack of opportunities in many Central American nations and RURAL FAMILIES NEED EDUCATIONAL CHOICE TOO Whether it was the curriculum of virtual schooling, difficulties with online education, or the need for social interaction, public school parents began to look for alternatives to educating their children outside of their zoned public school. TEACHERS, STUDENTS, AND POST-COVID MENTAL HEALTH When I concluded teaching two wonderful undergraduate seminars just a few weeks ago, many of my students were not in a good place. Virtual teaching during a global pandemic led to some spectacular teaching moments and opportunities to examine the nation and its diversity as students lived through intense political history in many unique places. But the remote environment that afforded such THE NEW ALZHEIMER’S DRUG THAT COULD BREAK MEDICARE Medicare, the federal health insurance program that covers Americans over 65, is facing an impossible dilemma: Should it cover a new and expensive medication for Alzheimer’s disease, which afflicts 6 million Americans and for which there is no existing SECRET IRS FILES SHOW HOW WEALTHIEST AVOID TAXES In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, t WYOMING DOESN'T NEED MEDICAID EXPANSION TO HELP THE TRULY 1 day ago · Wyoming isn’t leading this category out of cold, heartless thrift. It’s because Wyoming focuses its limited Medicaid dollars on the truly needy — individuals with disabilities, seniors, and kids — rather than able-bodied adults.. In fact, even without expanding Medicaid to able-bodied adults under Obamacare, Wyoming has become more generous to the truly needy, more than doubling its AMERICA'S OPINION JOURNALISTS RANKED: THE GOOD, THE BAD Because journalism worth its salt is in short supply, and because everybody loves a listicle, here’s one that rates the journalistic chops of some of the best and worst news and opinion writers. It’s not scientific but it’s fun to do, and the worst have it coming to them. Victor Davis Hanson (American Greatness). FIVE FACTS ON THE SENATE PARLIAMENTARIAN Here are five facts about the parliamentarian: The office of the parliamentarian has its roots in Article I, Section 5, of the Constitution, which says that “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings.”; Thomas Jefferson played a key role in compiling the operational rules of the House and the Senate when he published his Manual of Parliamentary Practice in 1801. WHEN SENSITIVITY BECOMES CENSORSHIP "How do I know what I think till I see what I say?” was a maxim of E.M. Forster’s—and a fine one. But the Simon & Schuster workers who petitioned to break their company’s contract with former vice president Mike Pence were sure they knew what he thought before he said it. To publish his memoir would be “legitimizing bigotry,” since Pence was the tool of Donald Trump, and Trump had BIDEN PRESIDENCY MAY DEPEND ON REAPPOINTING FED CHAIR It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Federal Reserve Board. While it cannot always boost the economy as much as it would like when the country falls into a recession, the Fed’s ability to raise interest rates gives it the power to impede economic growth and to keep millions of people from getting jobs.REALCLEARPOLICY
Five Facts on Police Reform Proposals. The recent conviction of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has once again put the spotlight on broader police reform efforts in Congress. SCHOOL DISRUPTED: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON K-12 EDUCATION Last week, Tyton Partners released a groundbreaking report — the first of three based on a nationwide longitudinal study titled “School Disrupted: The Impact of COVID-19 on Parent Agency and the K-12 Ecosystem.” The study digs deep into the public and private school enrollment declines reported around the country over the past year and focuses on not only where students went when they ILLINOIS' PENSION BOMB HAS A SHORT FUSE More than 1 in 10 Illinoisans – 1.1 million, or about 11.4% of the adult population – are members of an Illinois public pension system. Those government retirment systems are sitting on mountains of debt. There's $144 billion in debt just in the five statewide systems, by the state’s conservative estimate, or $261 billion by a more 3,309 NEW EARMARKS PROPOSED BY 324 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Last week, however, 3,309 earmarks from 220 Democrats and 104 Republicans were proposed. Pork is back on the table. The total tab for taxpayers is nearly $10 billion. We broke our investigation at Forbes where we also included links to our interactive map – we mapped all earmarks by congressional district. It’s a reminder ofwhy the
CONVICTED FORMER CONGRESSMAN STILL DRAWS ESTIMATED $1 After being sentenced to 10 years in prison for a 23-count conviction for racketeering, fraud and other corruption charges, disgraced former Congressman Chaka Fattah was released from prison last July after about one year.. But the icing on this crooked cake is that Fattah iscollecting a
$1 TRILLION IN NON-COVID-RELATED CORONAVIRUS “STIMULUS In FY2020, Congress appropriated $3 billion for Amtrak ($2 billion in annual appropriations, plus an additional $1 billion in the CARES Act COVID relief bill). In the three years before the pandemic, AMTRAK lost $392 million – even after a $5 billion taxpayer subsidy (FY2017-FY2019). Then there is the money for arts, libraries, andmuseums.
PEW: YOUNG, LIBERAL, WHITE WOMEN SUFFER MENTAL HEALTH Pew: Young, Liberal, White Women Suffer Mental Health Issues. Elizabeth Condra Evie Magazine April 15, 2021. Anastasia Shuraeva. It’s a common tactic of the politically charged on either side (and normally perceived as a cheap one at that) to take the particular adherents of an ideology and equate that diehard worship to mentalillness
THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR EXPANDED NATIONAL SERVICE Nobody seems to see national service as an intrinsically bad thing, at least in principle. Many even think it could be a positively good thing.But for the most part, today’s national service proposals tend either to be meager expansions of the current model exemplified by AmeriCorps and Teach for America, or unworkable mandatory and universal plans that might hurt the poor more than INEQUALITY AND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE Inequality and the Veil of Ignorance. By Courtney Such. August 09, 2015. America's income gap is much debated. But a new paper — invoking the famous "veil of ignorance" theory of philosopher John Rawls, who is much beloved on the left — suggests it may not be as dramatic as many believe. The paper suggests that global inequality,not
LEFTIST IDEOLOGY & THE CORRUPTION OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY Leftist Ideology & the Corruption of the American Military. Liberal ideology holds the American military in a vice grip, squeezing the very lifeblood of warlike virtue from its veins. Nowhere is this spiritual corrosion more evident than in the integration of women into our armed forces. Like the Marxists before them, the contemporary LeftREALCLEARPOLICY
Five Facts on Police Reform Proposals. The recent conviction of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has once again put the spotlight on broader police reform efforts in Congress. SCHOOL DISRUPTED: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON K-12 EDUCATION Last week, Tyton Partners released a groundbreaking report — the first of three based on a nationwide longitudinal study titled “School Disrupted: The Impact of COVID-19 on Parent Agency and the K-12 Ecosystem.” The study digs deep into the public and private school enrollment declines reported around the country over the past year and focuses on not only where students went when they ILLINOIS' PENSION BOMB HAS A SHORT FUSE More than 1 in 10 Illinoisans – 1.1 million, or about 11.4% of the adult population – are members of an Illinois public pension system. Those government retirment systems are sitting on mountains of debt. There's $144 billion in debt just in the five statewide systems, by the state’s conservative estimate, or $261 billion by a more 3,309 NEW EARMARKS PROPOSED BY 324 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Last week, however, 3,309 earmarks from 220 Democrats and 104 Republicans were proposed. Pork is back on the table. The total tab for taxpayers is nearly $10 billion. We broke our investigation at Forbes where we also included links to our interactive map – we mapped all earmarks by congressional district. It’s a reminder ofwhy the
CONVICTED FORMER CONGRESSMAN STILL DRAWS ESTIMATED $1 After being sentenced to 10 years in prison for a 23-count conviction for racketeering, fraud and other corruption charges, disgraced former Congressman Chaka Fattah was released from prison last July after about one year.. But the icing on this crooked cake is that Fattah iscollecting a
$1 TRILLION IN NON-COVID-RELATED CORONAVIRUS “STIMULUS In FY2020, Congress appropriated $3 billion for Amtrak ($2 billion in annual appropriations, plus an additional $1 billion in the CARES Act COVID relief bill). In the three years before the pandemic, AMTRAK lost $392 million – even after a $5 billion taxpayer subsidy (FY2017-FY2019). Then there is the money for arts, libraries, andmuseums.
PEW: YOUNG, LIBERAL, WHITE WOMEN SUFFER MENTAL HEALTH Pew: Young, Liberal, White Women Suffer Mental Health Issues. Elizabeth Condra Evie Magazine April 15, 2021. Anastasia Shuraeva. It’s a common tactic of the politically charged on either side (and normally perceived as a cheap one at that) to take the particular adherents of an ideology and equate that diehard worship to mentalillness
THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR EXPANDED NATIONAL SERVICE Nobody seems to see national service as an intrinsically bad thing, at least in principle. Many even think it could be a positively good thing.But for the most part, today’s national service proposals tend either to be meager expansions of the current model exemplified by AmeriCorps and Teach for America, or unworkable mandatory and universal plans that might hurt the poor more than INEQUALITY AND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE Inequality and the Veil of Ignorance. By Courtney Such. August 09, 2015. America's income gap is much debated. But a new paper — invoking the famous "veil of ignorance" theory of philosopher John Rawls, who is much beloved on the left — suggests it may not be as dramatic as many believe. The paper suggests that global inequality,not
LEFTIST IDEOLOGY & THE CORRUPTION OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY Leftist Ideology & the Corruption of the American Military. Liberal ideology holds the American military in a vice grip, squeezing the very lifeblood of warlike virtue from its veins. Nowhere is this spiritual corrosion more evident than in the integration of women into our armed forces. Like the Marxists before them, the contemporary Left CONGRESS NEEDS TO PUT THE BRAKES ON SPENDING The United States Congress and the Biden administration are entering dangerous spending territory. Budget hawks and conservatives became seriously anxious – perhaps a bit ill – when they saw the price tag for all the irresponsible spending last year at a record $6.5 trillion, yet the prospective budget numbers we are seeing today from Washington will make the government spending of the NEW STARTUP VISA WOULD SHOW THE US IS READY TO GROW 1 day ago · The startup visa is an idea that President Barack Obama included in his administration’s immigration reform framework.Unfortunately, it’s an idea that lost momentum when President Trump took office in 2017 and took steps to restrict the number of workers coming to the U.S. CONGRESS NEEDS TO PUT THE BRAKES ON SPENDING The Biden spending binge is a walk on the wild side in terms of breaking norms and constraints on government (over)reach. The New York Times offered up some old-school arithmetic for the three big-ticket Biden schemes – the Biden-friendly NYT revealed an astonishing $6 trillion tab. Add together this spending extravaganza to the current level of government expenditures, and the THE NEW ALZHEIMER’S DRUG THAT COULD BREAK MEDICARE Medicare, the federal health insurance program that covers Americans over 65, is facing an impossible dilemma: Should it cover a new and expensive medication for Alzheimer’s disease, which afflicts 6 million Americans and for which there is no existing NEW STARTUP VISA WOULD SHOW US READY TO GROW Although it is a promising move that shows the administration not only understands the difficulties facing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), but that it recognizes the essential role immigrant entrepreneurs have and will continue to play in fostering an American economy that is poised to grow. However, the International Entrepreneur Rule only allows for a temporary entry into FIVE FACTS ON THE SENATE PARLIAMENTARIAN Here are five facts about the parliamentarian: The office of the parliamentarian has its roots in Article I, Section 5, of the Constitution, which says that “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings.”; Thomas Jefferson played a key role in compiling the operational rules of the House and the Senate when he published his Manual of Parliamentary Practice in 1801. SECRET IRS FILES SHOW HOW WEALTHIEST AVOID TAXES In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, t WHEN SENSITIVITY BECOMES CENSORSHIP "How do I know what I think till I see what I say?” was a maxim of E.M. Forster’s—and a fine one. But the Simon & Schuster workers who petitioned to break their company’s contract with former vice president Mike Pence were sure they knew what he thought before he said it. To publish his memoir would be “legitimizing bigotry,” since Pence was the tool of Donald Trump, and Trump had WYOMING DOESN'T NEED MEDICAID EXPANSION TO HELP THE TRULY Wyoming isn’t leading this category out of cold, heartless thrift. It’s because Wyoming focuses its limited Medicaid dollars on the truly needy — individuals with disabilities, seniors, and kids — rather than able-bodied adults.. In fact, even without expanding Medicaid to able-bodied adults under Obamacare, Wyoming Wyoming WE MUST MAKE POLICING BETTER WITHOUT 'DEFUNDING' OR By the time I heard a local activist leader shout that he had brought a group of protesters outside my house to make my children, wife, and neighbors “uncomfortable,” I had mostly given up on the idea that meaningful systemic changes would come out ofREALCLEARPOLICY
Five Facts on Police Reform Proposals. The recent conviction of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has once again put the spotlight on broader police reform efforts in Congress. SCHOOL DISRUPTED: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON K-12 EDUCATION The report explores an important factor throughout this phenomenon called “parent agency,” which is a parent’s ability to pursue changes in their child’s education when they believe change is warranted. Louisiana certainly was not shielded from the effects of COVID-19 on K-12 schooling and saw nearly 17,000 students leave thepublic
3,309 NEW EARMARKS PROPOSED BY 324 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Last week, however, 3,309 earmarks from 220 Democrats and 104 Republicans were proposed. Pork is back on the table. The total tab for taxpayers is nearly $10 billion. We broke our investigation at Forbes where we also included links to our interactive map – we mapped all earmarks by congressional district. It’s a reminder ofwhy the
ILLINOIS' PENSION BOMB HAS A SHORT FUSE More than 1 in 10 Illinoisans – 1.1 million, or about 11.4% of the adult population – are members of an Illinois public pension system. Those government retirment systems are sitting on mountains of debt. There's $144 billion in debt just in the five statewide systems, by the state’s conservative estimate, or $261 billion by a more CONVICTED FORMER CONGRESSMAN STILL DRAWS ESTIMATED $1 After being sentenced to 10 years in prison for a 23-count conviction for racketeering, fraud and other corruption charges, disgraced former Congressman Chaka Fattah was released from prison last July after about one year.. But the icing on this crooked cake is that Fattah iscollecting a
$96 TRILLION IN UNFUNDED U.S. MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY While Uncle Sam has $5.9 trillion in assets, the $129 trillion owed in bills — including military and civilian retirement benefits — means the U.S. is in the hole for $123 trillion. Just the unfunded liabilities in Medicare and Social Security add up to $96 trillion. It is a stunning amount coming due over the next 75 years. AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN GIVES STATES MONEY, BUT TIES THEIRAUTHOR: JIMSTERGIOS
The new legislation cuts them a break by forcing far more dynamic states — including Massachusetts — to employ the policies that have left New York and Illinois spinning their wheels as other states roar by. State officials may salivate over the $350 billion in aid contained in the American Rescue Plan. But receipt of that aidshouldn’t
WHERE DOES BIDEN GO FROM HERE ON IMMIGRATION President Biden finally seems to realize there's a crisis on the southern border. In March he breezily assured reporters that “The truth of the matter is: Nothing has changed. It happens every single, solitary year.” But now, with polling clearly showing his vulnerability on immigration, he blames the Trump administration for not telling him there would be a border crisis. INEQUALITY AND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE Inequality and the Veil of Ignorance. By Courtney Such. August 09, 2015. America's income gap is much debated. But a new paper — invoking the famous "veil of ignorance" theory of philosopher John Rawls, who is much beloved on the left — suggests it may not be as dramatic as many believe. The paper suggests that global inequality,not
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES GET $1,400 PER WEEK The new perk is funded through a new $570 million family leave account exclusively for federal workers. Full-time federal employees can take up to 600 hours in paid leave until September 30, up to $35 an hour and $1,400 a week. That is 15 weeks for a 40-hour employee. Part-time and “seasonal” employees are eligible, too, with equivalentREALCLEARPOLICY
Five Facts on Police Reform Proposals. The recent conviction of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has once again put the spotlight on broader police reform efforts in Congress. SCHOOL DISRUPTED: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON K-12 EDUCATION The report explores an important factor throughout this phenomenon called “parent agency,” which is a parent’s ability to pursue changes in their child’s education when they believe change is warranted. Louisiana certainly was not shielded from the effects of COVID-19 on K-12 schooling and saw nearly 17,000 students leave thepublic
3,309 NEW EARMARKS PROPOSED BY 324 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Last week, however, 3,309 earmarks from 220 Democrats and 104 Republicans were proposed. Pork is back on the table. The total tab for taxpayers is nearly $10 billion. We broke our investigation at Forbes where we also included links to our interactive map – we mapped all earmarks by congressional district. It’s a reminder ofwhy the
ILLINOIS' PENSION BOMB HAS A SHORT FUSE More than 1 in 10 Illinoisans – 1.1 million, or about 11.4% of the adult population – are members of an Illinois public pension system. Those government retirment systems are sitting on mountains of debt. There's $144 billion in debt just in the five statewide systems, by the state’s conservative estimate, or $261 billion by a more CONVICTED FORMER CONGRESSMAN STILL DRAWS ESTIMATED $1 After being sentenced to 10 years in prison for a 23-count conviction for racketeering, fraud and other corruption charges, disgraced former Congressman Chaka Fattah was released from prison last July after about one year.. But the icing on this crooked cake is that Fattah iscollecting a
$96 TRILLION IN UNFUNDED U.S. MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY While Uncle Sam has $5.9 trillion in assets, the $129 trillion owed in bills — including military and civilian retirement benefits — means the U.S. is in the hole for $123 trillion. Just the unfunded liabilities in Medicare and Social Security add up to $96 trillion. It is a stunning amount coming due over the next 75 years. AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN GIVES STATES MONEY, BUT TIES THEIRAUTHOR: JIMSTERGIOS
The new legislation cuts them a break by forcing far more dynamic states — including Massachusetts — to employ the policies that have left New York and Illinois spinning their wheels as other states roar by. State officials may salivate over the $350 billion in aid contained in the American Rescue Plan. But receipt of that aidshouldn’t
WHERE DOES BIDEN GO FROM HERE ON IMMIGRATION President Biden finally seems to realize there's a crisis on the southern border. In March he breezily assured reporters that “The truth of the matter is: Nothing has changed. It happens every single, solitary year.” But now, with polling clearly showing his vulnerability on immigration, he blames the Trump administration for not telling him there would be a border crisis. INEQUALITY AND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE Inequality and the Veil of Ignorance. By Courtney Such. August 09, 2015. America's income gap is much debated. But a new paper — invoking the famous "veil of ignorance" theory of philosopher John Rawls, who is much beloved on the left — suggests it may not be as dramatic as many believe. The paper suggests that global inequality,not
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES GET $1,400 PER WEEK The new perk is funded through a new $570 million family leave account exclusively for federal workers. Full-time federal employees can take up to 600 hours in paid leave until September 30, up to $35 an hour and $1,400 a week. That is 15 weeks for a 40-hour employee. Part-time and “seasonal” employees are eligible, too, with equivalent RURAL FAMILIES NEED EDUCATIONAL CHOICE TOO 1 day ago · Whether it was the curriculum of virtual schooling, difficulties with online education, or the need for social interaction, public school parents began to look for alternatives to educating their children outside of their zoned public school. THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION OF THE PANDEMIC IS SHIFTING During a pandemic, no one’s health is fully in their own hands. No field should understand that more deeply than public health, a discipline distinct from medicine. Whereas doctors and nurses tr INCREASED IMMIGRATION IS NOT A SIMPLE SOLUTION FOR US Despite this reality, Jay Evensen of Salt Lake City’s Deseret News argues that the slowdown in population growth revealed by the Census “portends a population disaster.” Bloomberg News’ Noah Smith thinks lower population growth creates a “grim economic future.” Many commentators argue for increasing immigration above the more than one million already allowed in each year to spur CALIFORNIA REVEALS $75 BILLION BUDGET SURPLUS AFTER California collected loads of tax revenue from high earners, which is bringing the state to an unexpected $75.7 billion state budget surplus. On top of the surplus, California state government is getting $26 billion from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act – a federal coronavirus aid bill signed into law in March. MAXINE WATERS' PROPOSAL WON’T SOLVE HOUSING CRISIS That’s just an anecdote, sure, but the data aren’t much more encouraging. According to the Case-Schiller U.S. Home Price Index, prices jumped by 13.2 percent over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. This price escalation has played out in high-cost states such as California, where prices rose by over 17 percent. Yet even in historically affordable states like Texas, homes are now selling WASTEOFTHEDAY: $300K STUDY: IS RECYCLING MANLY If you are a man carrying reusable shopping bags or a woman caulking windows, watch out, because your sexual orientation could be in question. Those are the results ofTHE WAY WE LIVE NOW
I take my title from Anthony Trollope’s great 1875 novel chronicling the activities of the rapacious swindler Augustus Melmotte and his coterie of grasping climbers and brittle ingenues. Trollop FIVE FACTS ON THE SENATE PARLIAMENTARIAN Here are five facts about the parliamentarian: The office of the parliamentarian has its roots in Article I, Section 5, of the Constitution, which says that “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings.”; Thomas Jefferson played a key role in compiling the operational rules of the House and the Senate when he published his Manual of Parliamentary Practice in 1801. EXXONMOBIL GETS THE LEFTIST TIGER IN ITS TANK Control over one-third of ExxonMobil’s board of directors was captured by climate activists at the recent annual shareholder meeting. Wall Street Journal columnist Holman Jenkins dismissed the astonishing accomplishment as a “peudo-event” -- one “arranged or brought about merely for the sake of the publicity it generates.”That is just wrong.
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I grew up at the beach, and my compass, and the compass of my people, is set by where the ocean is. Six years ago my father, Chairman of the Northern Chumash tribe, led theREALCLEARPOLICY
Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls. Five Facts on Police Reform Proposals. The recent conviction of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has once again put the spotlight on broader police reform efforts in Congress. SCHOOL DISRUPTED: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON K-12 EDUCATION Last week, Tyton Partners released a groundbreaking report — the first of three based on a nationwide longitudinal study titled “School Disrupted: The Impact of COVID-19 on Parent Agency and the K-12 Ecosystem.” The study digs deep into the public and private school enrollment declines reported around the country over the past year and focuses on not only where students went when they CALIFORNIA REVEALS $75 BILLION BUDGET SURPLUS AFTER California collected loads of tax revenue from high earners, which is bringing the state to an unexpected $75.7 billion state budget surplus. On top of the surplus, California state government is getting $26 billion from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act – a federal coronavirus aid bill signed into law in March. ILLINOIS' PENSION BOMB HAS A SHORT FUSE Under the stress test scenario, the State Universities Retirement System would be the first to reach insolvency, and by 2039, the fund would be unable to pay full benefits with assets on hand.The other systems would see their funding ratios – the amount of money on hand to pay promised benefits – decline each year despite constantly increasing employer contributions. 3,309 NEW EARMARKS PROPOSED BY 324 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS However, 104 Republicans signed onto the Democrat-backed spending measure. Examples of Republican proposed earmarks include requests from Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) for $2 million for two new YMCAs in Ottawa and Joliet; $1.2 million for a “Canandaigua Trolley” from Rep. Chris Jacobs (R-NY); and $18.6 million to rebuild the fire station in Kodiak, Alaska (Rep. Don Young R-AK). $1 TRILLION IN NON-COVID-RELATED CORONAVIRUS “STIMULUS Certainly, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, provided some targeted COVID aid: $473 billion in payments to individuals, $75 billion in cash for vaccines, $26 billion to restaurants, $15 billion to help fund airline payrolls, and another $7.2 billion in Paycheck Protection Program AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN GIVES STATES MONEY, BUT TIES THEIR For state governments, the good news is that the American Rescue Plan recently signed by President Biden will inject $350 billion into their budgets. The bad news is that it places unwise and pos THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR EXPANDED NATIONAL SERVICE Nobody seems to see national service as an intrinsically bad thing, at least in principle. Many even think it could be a positively good thing.But for the most part, today’s national service proposals tend either to be meager expansions of the current model exemplified by AmeriCorps and Teach for America, or unworkable mandatory and universal plans that might hurt the poor more than INEQUALITY AND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE America's income gap is much debated. But a new paper — invoking the famous "veil of ignorance" theory of philosopher John Rawls, who is much beloved on the left — suggests it may not be as dramatic as many believe. The paper suggests that global inequality, not inequality within advanced nations, is what should concern the adherents of this theory as they make policy. AMERICA'S OPINION JOURNALISTS RANKED: THE GOOD, THE BAD Because journalism worth its salt is in short supply, and because everybody loves a listicle, here’s one that rates the journalistic chops of some of the best and worst news and opinion writers.REALCLEARPOLICY
Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls. Five Facts on Police Reform Proposals. The recent conviction of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has once again put the spotlight on broader police reform efforts in Congress. SCHOOL DISRUPTED: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON K-12 EDUCATION Last week, Tyton Partners released a groundbreaking report — the first of three based on a nationwide longitudinal study titled “School Disrupted: The Impact of COVID-19 on Parent Agency and the K-12 Ecosystem.” The study digs deep into the public and private school enrollment declines reported around the country over the past year and focuses on not only where students went when they CALIFORNIA REVEALS $75 BILLION BUDGET SURPLUS AFTER California collected loads of tax revenue from high earners, which is bringing the state to an unexpected $75.7 billion state budget surplus. On top of the surplus, California state government is getting $26 billion from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act – a federal coronavirus aid bill signed into law in March. ILLINOIS' PENSION BOMB HAS A SHORT FUSE Under the stress test scenario, the State Universities Retirement System would be the first to reach insolvency, and by 2039, the fund would be unable to pay full benefits with assets on hand.The other systems would see their funding ratios – the amount of money on hand to pay promised benefits – decline each year despite constantly increasing employer contributions. 3,309 NEW EARMARKS PROPOSED BY 324 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS However, 104 Republicans signed onto the Democrat-backed spending measure. Examples of Republican proposed earmarks include requests from Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) for $2 million for two new YMCAs in Ottawa and Joliet; $1.2 million for a “Canandaigua Trolley” from Rep. Chris Jacobs (R-NY); and $18.6 million to rebuild the fire station in Kodiak, Alaska (Rep. Don Young R-AK). $1 TRILLION IN NON-COVID-RELATED CORONAVIRUS “STIMULUS Certainly, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, provided some targeted COVID aid: $473 billion in payments to individuals, $75 billion in cash for vaccines, $26 billion to restaurants, $15 billion to help fund airline payrolls, and another $7.2 billion in Paycheck Protection Program AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN GIVES STATES MONEY, BUT TIES THEIR For state governments, the good news is that the American Rescue Plan recently signed by President Biden will inject $350 billion into their budgets. The bad news is that it places unwise and pos THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR EXPANDED NATIONAL SERVICE Nobody seems to see national service as an intrinsically bad thing, at least in principle. Many even think it could be a positively good thing.But for the most part, today’s national service proposals tend either to be meager expansions of the current model exemplified by AmeriCorps and Teach for America, or unworkable mandatory and universal plans that might hurt the poor more than INEQUALITY AND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE America's income gap is much debated. But a new paper — invoking the famous "veil of ignorance" theory of philosopher John Rawls, who is much beloved on the left — suggests it may not be as dramatic as many believe. The paper suggests that global inequality, not inequality within advanced nations, is what should concern the adherents of this theory as they make policy. AMERICA'S OPINION JOURNALISTS RANKED: THE GOOD, THE BAD Because journalism worth its salt is in short supply, and because everybody loves a listicle, here’s one that rates the journalistic chops of some of the best and worst news and opinion writers. RURAL FAMILIES NEED EDUCATIONAL CHOICE TOO 16 hours ago · Whether it was the curriculum of virtual schooling, difficulties with online education, or the need for social interaction, public school parents began to look for alternatives to educating their children outside of their zoned public school. CONVICTED FORMER CONGRESSMAN STILL DRAWS ESTIMATED $1 After being sentenced to 10 years in prison for a 23-count conviction for racketeering, fraud and other corruption charges, disgraced former Congressman Chaka Fattah was released from prison last July after about one year.. But the icing on this crooked cake is that Fattah iscollecting a
CALIFORNIA REVEALS $75 BILLION BUDGET SURPLUS AFTER California collected loads of tax revenue from high earners, which is bringing the state to an unexpected $75.7 billion state budget surplus. On top of the surplus, California state government is getting $26 billion from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act – a federal coronavirus aid bill signed into law in March. INCREASED IMMIGRATION IS NOT A SIMPLE SOLUTION FOR US 1 day ago · Despite this reality, Jay Evensen of Salt Lake City’s Deseret News argues that the slowdown in population growth revealed by the Census “portends a population disaster.” Bloomberg News’ Noah Smith thinks lower population growth creates a “grim economic future.” Many commentators argue for increasing immigration above the more than one million already allowed in each year to spur FLORIDA IS OVERCOMING 'SYSTEMIC PRIVILEGE' BY PUTTING If you are unfamiliar with this (de-racialized) mash-up term, try this: Go to a public forum and suggest that all families should be treated fairly – that all parents should have access to the per-pupil funds for their children even if they choose to educate them outside the public school system. CHILD ALLOWANCES MAKE THE IRS AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE WELFARE Definitions of welfare vary but usually involve cash and cash-like government benefits provided directly to low-income individuals, whose costs are supported by taxes paid by others. That distinguishes “welfare” from “social insurance” like unemployment benefits, Medicare, and Social Security that individuals earn directly through work and the payroll taxes they and their employers pay.JASON EDMONDS
This school year started unlike any other for children across the country, many of whom began the year staring at a computer screen. Yet for the minority of students who were able toVIOLET SAGE-WALKER
I grew up at the beach, and my compass, and the compass of my people, is set by where the ocean is. Six years ago my father, Chairman of the Northern Chumash tribe, led theDAN ROTHSCHILD
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Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls. Five Facts on Police Reform Proposals. The recent conviction of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has once again put the spotlight on broader police reform efforts in Congress. SCHOOL DISRUPTED: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON K-12 EDUCATION The report explores an important factor throughout this phenomenon called “parent agency,” which is a parent’s ability to pursue changes in their child’s education when they believe change is warranted. Louisiana certainly was not shielded from the effects of COVID-19 on K-12 schooling and saw nearly 17,000 students leave thepublic
ILLINOIS' PENSION BOMB HAS A SHORT FUSE More than 1 in 10 Illinoisans – 1.1 million, or about 11.4% of the adult population – are members of an Illinois public pension system. Those government retirment systems are sitting on mountains of debt. There's $144 billion in debt just in the five statewide systems, by the state’s conservative estimate, or $261 billion by a more CALIFORNIA REVEALS $75 BILLION BUDGET SURPLUS AFTER California collected loads of tax revenue from high earners, which is bringing the state to an unexpected $75.7 billion state budget surplus. On top of the surplus, California state government is getting $26 billion from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act – a federal coronavirus aid bill signed into law in March. $1 TRILLION IN NON-COVID-RELATED CORONAVIRUS “STIMULUS In FY2020, Congress appropriated $3 billion for Amtrak ($2 billion in annual appropriations, plus an additional $1 billion in the CARES Act COVID relief bill). In the three years before the pandemic, AMTRAK lost $392 million – even after a $5 billion taxpayer subsidy (FY2017-FY2019). Then there is the money for arts, libraries, andmuseums.
AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN GIVES STATES MONEY, BUT TIES THEIR The new legislation cuts them a break by forcing far more dynamic states — including Massachusetts — to employ the policies that have left New York and Illinois spinning their wheels as other states roar by. State officials may salivate over the $350 billion in aid contained in the American Rescue Plan. But receipt of that aidshouldn’t
THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR EXPANDED NATIONAL SERVICE Nobody seems to see national service as an intrinsically bad thing, at least in principle. Many even think it could be a positively good thing.But for the most part, today’s national service proposals tend either to be meager expansions of the current model exemplified by AmeriCorps and Teach for America, or unworkable mandatory and universal plans that might hurt the poor more than INEQUALITY AND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE Inequality and the Veil of Ignorance. By Courtney Such. August 09, 2015. America's income gap is much debated. But a new paper — invoking the famous "veil of ignorance" theory of philosopher John Rawls, who is much beloved on the left — suggests it may not be as dramatic as many believe. The paper suggests that global inequality,not
AMERICA'S OPINION JOURNALISTS RANKED: THE GOOD, THE BAD Because journalism worth its salt is in short supply, and because everybody loves a listicle, here’s one that rates the journalistic chops of some of the best and worst news and opinion writers. It’s not scientific but it’s fun to do, and the worst have it coming CAN SOMEONE ELSE BUY A GUN FOR YOU? June 15, 2014. Under federal law, anyone buying a gun from a licensed dealer must undergo a background check. If you can't pass a background check, the obvious way to get around it is to use a "straw purchaser" -- to pay someone else to buy the gun for you. To counteract this, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives makes everyREALCLEARPOLICY
Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls. Five Facts on Police Reform Proposals. The recent conviction of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has once again put the spotlight on broader police reform efforts in Congress. SCHOOL DISRUPTED: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON K-12 EDUCATION The report explores an important factor throughout this phenomenon called “parent agency,” which is a parent’s ability to pursue changes in their child’s education when they believe change is warranted. Louisiana certainly was not shielded from the effects of COVID-19 on K-12 schooling and saw nearly 17,000 students leave thepublic
ILLINOIS' PENSION BOMB HAS A SHORT FUSE More than 1 in 10 Illinoisans – 1.1 million, or about 11.4% of the adult population – are members of an Illinois public pension system. Those government retirment systems are sitting on mountains of debt. There's $144 billion in debt just in the five statewide systems, by the state’s conservative estimate, or $261 billion by a more CALIFORNIA REVEALS $75 BILLION BUDGET SURPLUS AFTER California collected loads of tax revenue from high earners, which is bringing the state to an unexpected $75.7 billion state budget surplus. On top of the surplus, California state government is getting $26 billion from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act – a federal coronavirus aid bill signed into law in March. $1 TRILLION IN NON-COVID-RELATED CORONAVIRUS “STIMULUS In FY2020, Congress appropriated $3 billion for Amtrak ($2 billion in annual appropriations, plus an additional $1 billion in the CARES Act COVID relief bill). In the three years before the pandemic, AMTRAK lost $392 million – even after a $5 billion taxpayer subsidy (FY2017-FY2019). Then there is the money for arts, libraries, andmuseums.
AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN GIVES STATES MONEY, BUT TIES THEIR The new legislation cuts them a break by forcing far more dynamic states — including Massachusetts — to employ the policies that have left New York and Illinois spinning their wheels as other states roar by. State officials may salivate over the $350 billion in aid contained in the American Rescue Plan. But receipt of that aidshouldn’t
THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR EXPANDED NATIONAL SERVICE Nobody seems to see national service as an intrinsically bad thing, at least in principle. Many even think it could be a positively good thing.But for the most part, today’s national service proposals tend either to be meager expansions of the current model exemplified by AmeriCorps and Teach for America, or unworkable mandatory and universal plans that might hurt the poor more than INEQUALITY AND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE Inequality and the Veil of Ignorance. By Courtney Such. August 09, 2015. America's income gap is much debated. But a new paper — invoking the famous "veil of ignorance" theory of philosopher John Rawls, who is much beloved on the left — suggests it may not be as dramatic as many believe. The paper suggests that global inequality,not
AMERICA'S OPINION JOURNALISTS RANKED: THE GOOD, THE BAD Because journalism worth its salt is in short supply, and because everybody loves a listicle, here’s one that rates the journalistic chops of some of the best and worst news and opinion writers. It’s not scientific but it’s fun to do, and the worst have it coming CAN SOMEONE ELSE BUY A GUN FOR YOU? June 15, 2014. Under federal law, anyone buying a gun from a licensed dealer must undergo a background check. If you can't pass a background check, the obvious way to get around it is to use a "straw purchaser" -- to pay someone else to buy the gun for you. To counteract this, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives makes every FLORIDA IS OVERCOMING 'SYSTEMIC PRIVILEGE' BY PUTTING If you are unfamiliar with this (de-racialized) mash-up term, try this: Go to a public forum and suggest that all families should be treated fairly – that all parents should have access to the per-pupil funds for their children even if they choose to educate them outside the public school system. GEORGETOWN RECEIVED $7 MILLION IN FEDERAL GRANTS FOR NEW If you have ever wondered whether there’s life outside Earth, a recent $7 million award given to study such possible life might bring scientists one step closer. That’s right — NASA CALIFORNIA REVEALS $75 BILLION BUDGET SURPLUS AFTER California collected loads of tax revenue from high earners, which is bringing the state to an unexpected $75.7 billion state budget surplus. On top of the surplus, California state government is getting $26 billion from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act – a federal coronavirus aid bill signed into law in March. REALCLEARPOLICY JUNE 4, 2021 ARCHIVES RealClearPolicy June 4, 2021 Archives | RealClearPolicy “FAKE FARMS” REAPED $2 MILLION IN COVID-19 AID RELIEF With no one checking on who was getting forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, the federal lending program has been rife withfraud. It
REALCLEARPOLICY WEEK OF MAY 31, 2021 ARCHIVES RealClearPolicy Week of May 31, 2021 Archives | RealClearPolicy JOHN BLAKE | AUTHOR | REALCLEARPOLICY ne of Charlton Heston's greatest performances came not in a Hollywood film but on a convention stage where he electrified a crowd of gun-rights enthusiasts.PAUL VIRTUE
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Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls. Five Facts on Police Reform Proposals. The recent conviction of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has once again put the spotlight on broader police reform efforts in Congress. SCHOOL DISRUPTED: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON K-12 EDUCATION The report explores an important factor throughout this phenomenon called “parent agency,” which is a parent’s ability to pursue changes in their child’s education when they believe change is warranted. Louisiana certainly was not shielded from the effects of COVID-19 on K-12 schooling and saw nearly 17,000 students leave thepublic
ILLINOIS' PENSION BOMB HAS A SHORT FUSE More than 1 in 10 Illinoisans – 1.1 million, or about 11.4% of the adult population – are members of an Illinois public pension system. Those government retirment systems are sitting on mountains of debt. There's $144 billion in debt just in the five statewide systems, by the state’s conservative estimate, or $261 billion by a more CALIFORNIA REVEALS $75 BILLION BUDGET SURPLUS AFTER California collected loads of tax revenue from high earners, which is bringing the state to an unexpected $75.7 billion state budget surplus. On top of the surplus, California state government is getting $26 billion from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act – a federal coronavirus aid bill signed into law in March. $1 TRILLION IN NON-COVID-RELATED CORONAVIRUS “STIMULUS In FY2020, Congress appropriated $3 billion for Amtrak ($2 billion in annual appropriations, plus an additional $1 billion in the CARES Act COVID relief bill). In the three years before the pandemic, AMTRAK lost $392 million – even after a $5 billion taxpayer subsidy (FY2017-FY2019). Then there is the money for arts, libraries, andmuseums.
AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN GIVES STATES MONEY, BUT TIES THEIR The new legislation cuts them a break by forcing far more dynamic states — including Massachusetts — to employ the policies that have left New York and Illinois spinning their wheels as other states roar by. State officials may salivate over the $350 billion in aid contained in the American Rescue Plan. But receipt of that aidshouldn’t
THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR EXPANDED NATIONAL SERVICE Nobody seems to see national service as an intrinsically bad thing, at least in principle. Many even think it could be a positively good thing.But for the most part, today’s national service proposals tend either to be meager expansions of the current model exemplified by AmeriCorps and Teach for America, or unworkable mandatory and universal plans that might hurt the poor more than INEQUALITY AND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE Inequality and the Veil of Ignorance. By Courtney Such. August 09, 2015. America's income gap is much debated. But a new paper — invoking the famous "veil of ignorance" theory of philosopher John Rawls, who is much beloved on the left — suggests it may not be as dramatic as many believe. The paper suggests that global inequality,not
AMERICA'S OPINION JOURNALISTS RANKED: THE GOOD, THE BAD Because journalism worth its salt is in short supply, and because everybody loves a listicle, here’s one that rates the journalistic chops of some of the best and worst news and opinion writers. It’s not scientific but it’s fun to do, and the worst have it coming CAN SOMEONE ELSE BUY A GUN FOR YOU? June 15, 2014. Under federal law, anyone buying a gun from a licensed dealer must undergo a background check. If you can't pass a background check, the obvious way to get around it is to use a "straw purchaser" -- to pay someone else to buy the gun for you. To counteract this, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives makes everyREALCLEARPOLICY
Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls. Five Facts on Police Reform Proposals. The recent conviction of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has once again put the spotlight on broader police reform efforts in Congress. SCHOOL DISRUPTED: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON K-12 EDUCATION The report explores an important factor throughout this phenomenon called “parent agency,” which is a parent’s ability to pursue changes in their child’s education when they believe change is warranted. Louisiana certainly was not shielded from the effects of COVID-19 on K-12 schooling and saw nearly 17,000 students leave thepublic
ILLINOIS' PENSION BOMB HAS A SHORT FUSE More than 1 in 10 Illinoisans – 1.1 million, or about 11.4% of the adult population – are members of an Illinois public pension system. Those government retirment systems are sitting on mountains of debt. There's $144 billion in debt just in the five statewide systems, by the state’s conservative estimate, or $261 billion by a more CALIFORNIA REVEALS $75 BILLION BUDGET SURPLUS AFTER California collected loads of tax revenue from high earners, which is bringing the state to an unexpected $75.7 billion state budget surplus. On top of the surplus, California state government is getting $26 billion from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act – a federal coronavirus aid bill signed into law in March. $1 TRILLION IN NON-COVID-RELATED CORONAVIRUS “STIMULUS In FY2020, Congress appropriated $3 billion for Amtrak ($2 billion in annual appropriations, plus an additional $1 billion in the CARES Act COVID relief bill). In the three years before the pandemic, AMTRAK lost $392 million – even after a $5 billion taxpayer subsidy (FY2017-FY2019). Then there is the money for arts, libraries, andmuseums.
AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN GIVES STATES MONEY, BUT TIES THEIR The new legislation cuts them a break by forcing far more dynamic states — including Massachusetts — to employ the policies that have left New York and Illinois spinning their wheels as other states roar by. State officials may salivate over the $350 billion in aid contained in the American Rescue Plan. But receipt of that aidshouldn’t
THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR EXPANDED NATIONAL SERVICE Nobody seems to see national service as an intrinsically bad thing, at least in principle. Many even think it could be a positively good thing.But for the most part, today’s national service proposals tend either to be meager expansions of the current model exemplified by AmeriCorps and Teach for America, or unworkable mandatory and universal plans that might hurt the poor more than INEQUALITY AND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE Inequality and the Veil of Ignorance. By Courtney Such. August 09, 2015. America's income gap is much debated. But a new paper — invoking the famous "veil of ignorance" theory of philosopher John Rawls, who is much beloved on the left — suggests it may not be as dramatic as many believe. The paper suggests that global inequality,not
AMERICA'S OPINION JOURNALISTS RANKED: THE GOOD, THE BAD Because journalism worth its salt is in short supply, and because everybody loves a listicle, here’s one that rates the journalistic chops of some of the best and worst news and opinion writers. It’s not scientific but it’s fun to do, and the worst have it coming CAN SOMEONE ELSE BUY A GUN FOR YOU? June 15, 2014. Under federal law, anyone buying a gun from a licensed dealer must undergo a background check. If you can't pass a background check, the obvious way to get around it is to use a "straw purchaser" -- to pay someone else to buy the gun for you. To counteract this, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives makes every FLORIDA IS OVERCOMING 'SYSTEMIC PRIVILEGE' BY PUTTING If you are unfamiliar with this (de-racialized) mash-up term, try this: Go to a public forum and suggest that all families should be treated fairly – that all parents should have access to the per-pupil funds for their children even if they choose to educate them outside the public school system. REALCLEARPOLICY JUNE 4, 2021 ARCHIVES RealClearPolicy June 4, 2021 Archives | RealClearPolicy CALIFORNIA REVEALS $75 BILLION BUDGET SURPLUS AFTER California collected loads of tax revenue from high earners, which is bringing the state to an unexpected $75.7 billion state budget surplus. On top of the surplus, California state government is getting $26 billion from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act – a federal coronavirus aid bill signed into law in March. GEORGETOWN RECEIVED $7 MILLION IN FEDERAL GRANTS FOR NEW If you have ever wondered whether there’s life outside Earth, a recent $7 million award given to study such possible life might bring scientists one step closer. That’s right — NASA “FAKE FARMS” REAPED $2 MILLION IN COVID-19 AID RELIEF With no one checking on who was getting forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, the federal lending program has been rife withfraud. It
REALCLEARPOLICY WEEK OF MAY 31, 2021 ARCHIVES RealClearPolicy Week of May 31, 2021 Archives | RealClearPolicy JOHN BLAKE | AUTHOR | REALCLEARPOLICY ne of Charlton Heston's greatest performances came not in a Hollywood film but on a convention stage where he electrified a crowd of gun-rights enthusiasts.PAUL VIRTUE
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Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls. Five Facts on Police Reform Proposals. The recent conviction of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has once again put the spotlight on broader police reform efforts in Congress. SCHOOL DISRUPTED: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON K-12 EDUCATION Last week, Tyton Partners released a groundbreaking report — the first of three based on a nationwide longitudinal study titled “School Disrupted: The Impact of COVID-19 on Parent Agency and the K-12 Ecosystem.” The study digs deep into the public and private school enrollment declines reported around the country over the past year and focuses on not only where students went when they ILLINOIS' PENSION BOMB HAS A SHORT FUSE Under the stress test scenario, the State Universities Retirement System would be the first to reach insolvency, and by 2039, the fund would be unable to pay full benefits with assets on hand.The other systems would see their funding ratios – the amount of money on hand to pay promised benefits – decline each year despite constantly increasing employer contributions. CALIFORNIA REVEALS $75 BILLION BUDGET SURPLUS AFTER California collected loads of tax revenue from high earners, which is bringing the state to an unexpected $75.7 billion state budget surplus. On top of the surplus, California state government is getting $26 billion from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act – a federal coronavirus aid bill signed into law in March. $1 TRILLION IN NON-COVID-RELATED CORONAVIRUS “STIMULUS Certainly, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, provided some targeted COVID aid: $473 billion in payments to individuals, $75 billion in cash for vaccines, $26 billion to restaurants, $15 billion to help fund airline payrolls, and another $7.2 billion in Paycheck Protection Program AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN GIVES STATES MONEY, BUT TIES THEIR For state governments, the good news is that the American Rescue Plan recently signed by President Biden will inject $350 billion into their budgets. The bad news is that it places unwise and pos THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR EXPANDED NATIONAL SERVICE Nobody seems to see national service as an intrinsically bad thing, at least in principle. Many even think it could be a positively good thing.But for the most part, today’s national service proposals tend either to be meager expansions of the current model exemplified by AmeriCorps and Teach for America, or unworkable mandatory and universal plans that might hurt the poor more than INEQUALITY AND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE America's income gap is much debated. But a new paper — invoking the famous "veil of ignorance" theory of philosopher John Rawls, who is much beloved on the left — suggests it may not be as dramatic as many believe. The paper suggests that global inequality, not inequality within advanced nations, is what should concern the adherents of this theory as they make policy. AMERICA'S OPINION JOURNALISTS RANKED: THE GOOD, THE BAD Because journalism worth its salt is in short supply, and because everybody loves a listicle, here’s one that rates the journalistic chops of some of the best and worst news and opinion writers. CAN SOMEONE ELSE BUY A GUN FOR YOU? Under federal law, anyone buying a gun from a licensed dealer must undergo a background check. If you can't pass a background check, the obvious way to get around it is to use a "straw purchaser" -- to pay someone else to buy the gun for you.REALCLEARPOLICY
Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls. Five Facts on Police Reform Proposals. The recent conviction of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has once again put the spotlight on broader police reform efforts in Congress. SCHOOL DISRUPTED: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON K-12 EDUCATION The report explores an important factor throughout this phenomenon called “parent agency,” which is a parent’s ability to pursue changes in their child’s education when they believe change is warranted. Louisiana certainly was not shielded from the effects of COVID-19 on K-12 schooling and saw nearly 17,000 students leave thepublic
ILLINOIS' PENSION BOMB HAS A SHORT FUSE More than 1 in 10 Illinoisans – 1.1 million, or about 11.4% of the adult population – are members of an Illinois public pension system. Those government retirment systems are sitting on mountains of debt. There's $144 billion in debt just in the five statewide systems, by the state’s conservative estimate, or $261 billion by a more CALIFORNIA REVEALS $75 BILLION BUDGET SURPLUS AFTER California collected loads of tax revenue from high earners, which is bringing the state to an unexpected $75.7 billion state budget surplus. On top of the surplus, California state government is getting $26 billion from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act – a federal coronavirus aid bill signed into law in March. $1 TRILLION IN NON-COVID-RELATED CORONAVIRUS “STIMULUS In FY2020, Congress appropriated $3 billion for Amtrak ($2 billion in annual appropriations, plus an additional $1 billion in the CARES Act COVID relief bill). In the three years before the pandemic, AMTRAK lost $392 million – even after a $5 billion taxpayer subsidy (FY2017-FY2019). Then there is the money for arts, libraries, andmuseums.
AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN GIVES STATES MONEY, BUT TIES THEIR The new legislation cuts them a break by forcing far more dynamic states — including Massachusetts — to employ the policies that have left New York and Illinois spinning their wheels as other states roar by. State officials may salivate over the $350 billion in aid contained in the American Rescue Plan. But receipt of that aidshouldn’t
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