The Heartland Institute

Property owners won a major victory when a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled against the U.S. Justice Department’s attempt to seize a family-owned motel because of 15 drug-related arrests involving lodgers there between 1994 and 2008. The Justice Department never alleged the hotel’s owners or their employees had anything to ...

At the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in San Diego (January 4-6, 2013), Harvard professor of economics Benjamin Friedman said, “The standard models we teach … simply have no room in them for what most of the world’s central banks have done in response to the crisis.” Friedman advises sweeping aside the ...

Global warming alarmists are desperately seeking to minimize the damage presented by a recent survey of geoscientists and engineers regarding global warming. A recent survey of more than 1,000 geoscientists and engineers reported in the peer-reviewed Organization Studies found only 36 percent agree with the United Nations Intergovernmental ...

The Indiana Senate on Thursday passed Senate Bill 193, a measure providing for public hearings around the state to reconsider adoption of Common Core education standards. The vote was 38-11, with all Republicans and three Democrats voting for the bill. It now moves to the Indiana House. House Education Chairman Robert Behning ...

As states begin implementing the federal health care law, many, such as Kansas, are still debating whether to expand their Medicaid programs in order to receive a larger federal subsidy. If Kansas expands its Medicaid program to individuals at 100 to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, the federal government will provide ...

Political leaders in Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska and North Carolina are working toward the elimination of their states' income taxes. Jonathan Williams of the American Legislative Exchange Council works with legislators in those and other states around the country. He discusses income taxes and the reasons some states' leaders ...

There’s a meme being pushed on the right by a few Rick Scott supporters that he waved the white flag on Medicaid expansion as a quid pro quo for “privatizing Medicaid”, which amounts to a waiver for managed care. As Phil Klein notes, that’s Scott’s claim: “[Scott] said he was swayed to back the expansion by the Obama ...

College students are about to wake up to the fact that there is a huge price they will have to pay under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. For them, ObamaCare will be anything but affordable. Consider the situation in New Jersey, the only state that currently requires all college students to have healthcare ...

With Americans having fewer babies and fewer immigrants arriving since the 2009 recession, education institutions had better brace for change, a new study finds. The number of high school graduates dipped in 2012 for the first time in decades, and it is likely to stay down until 2019, according to a new report by the Western ...