Do newspapers pay attention to studies released by think tanks and advocacy groups? Certainly, at least if the message is one of panic, gloom and doom–which in today’s environment, leads to calls for government action.
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Archives for December, 2008
If Families USA Issues Yet Another Call for Governmentized Medicine, is it Still News?
category: Health Care
School Scholarships Overturn Parents’ Apathy
A friend recently said to me that “teachers do try to get parents involved, but I know someone who works in a poverty-stricken, poorly performing school. She tells me that the parents just don’t care when she tells them that their children are failing.” Is the problem that these parents are uncaring, or that our [...]
category: Education
Ouch!
Minnesotans and the nation are facing one of the worst recessions in decades. And that means two things for government: falling revenues and higher spending. Revenues go down for obvious reasons. Wages, corporate profits, and sales all go down, and with them the taxes the government collects on them. And spending goes up because the [...]
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