The Heartland Institute

Delaware taxpayers may lose a $21.5 million “investment” as Fisker Automotive took taxpayer money to create green jobs but has yet to produce a single car in the state. In addition to the $21.5 million in grants and loans that appear unlikely to be repaid, state taxpayers have had to cover an additional $400,000 in electric ...

Friday's ed news: 1. The forthcoming Common Core science standards are unclear, drop important knowledge, and force failed teaching strategies. 2. Governors Jindal, McDonnell, and Bush get together today to discuss education reform. 3. The high number of teacher absences shortchange students. 4. Testing should be used as a ruler ...

Benjamin Domenech talks about how smokers are singled out for Obamacare rate hikes. ...

Only 36 percent of geoscientists and engineers believe that humans are creating a global warming crisis, according to a survey reported in the peer-reviewed Organization Studies . Nearly two-thirds of the 1,077 respondents believe that nature is the primary cause of recent global warming and/or that future global warming will ...

Five years after the housing collapse of 2008, the U.S. government’s role in the mortgage market could have taxpayers on the hook for another multibillion-dollar rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Federal Housing Finance Agency took over both government-sponsored enterprises in 2008 to ensure their solvency in the wake ...

The U.S. economy is suffering its deepest and most prolonged recession since the Great Depression. The fundamental causes of the recession and the slow recovery are two decades of poorly conceived housing credit policies and the adoption of failed Keynesian economic policies, say economists Eric Fruits and Randall Pozdena, who ...

A South Carolina lawmaker has introduced a school choice bill that would give parents a $4,000 tax deduction per year for each child they send to independent schools, a $1,000 tax deduction for those sent to public schools outside their district, and a $2,000 tax deduction for those that homeschool. After filing Senate Bill ...

The Wisconsin Legislature is edging closer to asking voters whether to amend the state constitution to ensure transportation-related revenue stays in the transportation fund. After years of raiding the transportation fund to pay for other programs, the legislature last session passed a joint resolution that would block future lawmakers ...