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I am the president of The Heartland Institute. For the past ten years, Maureen Martin worked for me as a senior fellow and legal counsel. Do any of you remember the movie “The Incredibles”? It was an animated movie about a family of super heroes – Mr. Incredible and his wife Elastigirl and their three kids – living in ...

The speech in the attached PDF was delivered by Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast on February 23, 2013, at the Eighth Annual Wisconsin Conservative Conference, Bluemound Gardens, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. An excerpt is below: In 2016, in time for the next presidential election, every child now in high school will be eligible ...

Sometimes, it seems as though the debate over school reform takes place in an alternate universe where time passes but nothing really changes. Complaints about the quality of public education were widespread in the 1980s and even in the 1950s and before, and they sound surprisingly similar to those heard today. Thankfully, new ...

The following is an excerpt from a speech Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast delivered at the "Yes, We Did Build It" rally in Waukesha, WI on September 22, 2012 : Back in July, President Obama said, If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life ...

Joe Bast, President and CEO of the Heartland Institute, writes about the goals and vision of the organization in the official prospectus of Heartland Institute of 2012. Heartland has an important mission as a freedom preserving organization that brings free market insights into the national policy debate. The prospectus details ...

Taxpayer Savings Grant Program Questions and Answers by Marc Oestreich and Joseph L. Bast The Heartland Institute Last Updated: August 2012 Q4: Would the TSGP take the “best kids” out of public schools? Answer in brief: No. The Taxpayer Savings Grant Program (TSGP) would appeal mostly to students who are struggling in their current ...

Taxpayer Savings Grants Program Questions and Answers by Joseph L. Bast President, The Heartland Institute Last updated: August 2012 Q1: How would the TSGP affect the state’s ranking on per-pupil spending? Answer in brief: The Taxpayer Savings Grant Program (TSGP) could raise per-pupil spending for students still in public schools ...

Taxpayer Savings Grant Program Questions and Answers by Joseph L. Bast President, The Heartland Institute Last Updated: August 2012 Q2: Would there be enough space in private schools to meet the surge in demand? Answer in brief: Yes! Research and real-world experience show that the supply of private schooling is highly elastic – it ...

Taxpayer Savings Grant Program Questions and Answers by Joseph L. Bast President, The Heartland Institute Last Updated: August 2012 Q5: Would TSGP impose new regulations on private schools? Answer in brief: No. The only regulations on participating schools that would be enforced under the Taxpayer Savings Grant Program (TSGP) would ...

Taxpayer Savings Grant Program Questions and Answers by Joseph L. Bast President, The Heartland Institute Last Updated: August 2012 Q3: Would the TSGP hurt public school teachers? Answer in brief: No. In fact, the Taxpayer Savings Grant Program (TSGP) would benefit teachers at least four ways, starting with increasing their average ...

The Center on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate is one of five centers at The Heartland Institute, each dedicated to discovering, developing, and promoting free-market solutions to social and economic problems in a particular area. History The Heartland Institute’s participation in the finance, insurance, and real estate (FIRE ...

Click the links below to download a PDF of the series of cease and desist letters The Heartland Institute sent to blogs and online publications that linked to and reproduced excerpts from the stolen and faked documents in the Fakegate scandal surrounding Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute. ...

References to Climate Change Reconsidered – 2009 Compiled by Joseph Bast December 18, 2011 These citations were generated using Google Scholar on December 18, 2011. Most references are to peer-reviewed journals or books. Affiliations of authors are sometimes provided as background. Foreign language citations are not included. ...

CLICK BELOW FOR FULL-TEXT PDF The Indiana School Scholarship Act (ISSA), signed into law by Gov. Mitch Daniels in May 2011, creates a school voucher program for low- and middle-income families in Indiana, doubles the preexisting cap on a scholarship tax-credit program, and creates a tax deduction for any family that pays out ...

The Taxpayers’ Savings Grant Program (TSGP) is a very concise piece of legislation, apparently intended to address the state’s looming biannual budget deficit by reducing enrollment and associated costs in he state’s public K-12 schools at a time of budget shortfalls. By reimbursing parents and legal guardians for “the amount ...

The “business climate” of a nation, state, or city refers to the combined effect on businesses of public policies, natural endowments, and other assets that affect business start-ups and profitability. A good business climate encourages existing businesses to grow, people to start new businesses, and national and international ...

“At least seven theories of climate change enjoy some support in the scientific community. With the anthropogenic global warming theory now in disrepute, it is a good time to review the other six …” This booklet identifies seven theories, anthropogenic global warming (AGW) plus six others that do not claim man-made emissions ...

This 880-page rebuttal of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), three years in the making, was released in June 2009 by The Heartland Institute. Coauthored and edited by S. Fred Singer, Ph.D., and Craig Idso, Ph.D. and produced with contributions and reviews by an international ...

Why do we need principles of energy policy? Energy issues are rising to the top of the agenda in many states, compelling elected officials to take positions on topics as wide-ranging as subsidies to biofuels producers and restrictions on mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants. Energy issues often are complex and frequently ...

This booklet is designed to help state legislators find solutions to health care problems by first identifying their causes and true extent--which often are not as they are reported in newspaper stories or touted by special interest groups--and then by presenting 10 principles that ought to guide reform efforts. Get it at the ...