The Heartland Institute

Joy Pullmann, managing editor of School Reform News, has been traveling the country spreading the word about the common core and why people should oppose it. She discusses her travels with Heartland's Jim Lakely. ...

Steve Stanek discusses chained CPI and other aspects of President Obama's 2014 budget on The Take with Charles Butler. ...

New reports have found that one in four African-American students has been suspended, compared to less than one in ten white students. School discipline is a controversial issue. Are kids responsible for their own bad behavior? Are their parents? What about schools? A new report shows how concerned Milwaukee parents and ...

When perks including pensions, health insurance, paid vacations, disability insurance, and other forms of compensation are included, many municipal workers in California are receiving triple the compensation typically reported in newspapers and even by the State Controller. Ed Ring of the California Public Policy Center explains ...

Ying Ma, Heartland Institute policy adviser, talks with Ronald McKinnon, Professor of Economics at Stanford University, about the dollar standard, China's trade surplus with the US and the International Financial system. ...

Brad Rodu, Endowed Chair, Tobacco Harm Reduction Research at the University of Louisville and Senior Fellow at the Heartland Institute discusses tobacco harm reduction on "The Legislature Today' radio show in Bismark, North Dakota. Read some of Dr. Rodu's work, and Heartland coverage of tobacco harm reduction, at PolicyBot . [ Subscribe ...

The Tax Foundation's annual Tax Freedom Day report is out, and it shows federal tax increases that took effect this year will move the date back five days from last year. But that's an average, as some states won't see tax freedom until well into May, while others already have tax freedom. ...

About a decade ago, James Tooley wandered out into a foreign slum and encountered a network of inexpensive private schools on every few street corners. The professor of education policy at Newcastle University and his team went back to study this system of education, and found that private schools serve the world's poor ...

ECN PODCAST: James M. Taylor , senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute and host Jim Lakely discuss the latest news on efforts to roll back wasteful and expensive renewable power mandates from state to state. ...

Benjamin Domenech talks with Avik Roy of the Manhattan Institute about Arkansas' Medicaid deal. ...

Because bureaucrats control public schools, public schools have for decades pushed successive generations of Americans farther and farther left, says Karen Schroeder. She's president of Advocates for Academic Freedom and a Wisconsin public school teacher who has seen this first-hand. Because textbooks and teacher training are ...

Benjamin Domenech interviews Jim Capretta of the EPPC on Medicaid reform. ...

In May, banking industry consultant Patrick Barron will be addressing the European Parliament and lobbying for Germany to exit the Eurozone, reestablish the Deutsche Mark as its official currency, and back it with physical gold. He joins us to discuss the virtues of sound money. ...

Capitalism once did a superior job providing K-12 schooling in the United States, and would do so once again if the public could overcome its fear of markets and economics, wrote Herbert Walberg and Joe Bast in their book, Education and Capitalism . It’s the book's ten-year anniversary, so Walberg joins the podcast to ...

Jim Lakely and Matthew Glans speak with Hester Peirce, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University about the Dodd-Frank Act, its effects on the economy and her new book, Dodd-Frank: What It Does and Why It's Flawed. ...

Daniel Simmons of the Institute for Energy Research explains how renewable power mandates are driving up electricity prices. ...

After several days of protest by residents of Cyprus, the government there has voted against confiscating money from bank savings accounts to help fund a bailout of Cypriot banks. The US government is already doing essentially what the Cyprus government rejected, just in a more subtle and nuanced way, says Robert Romano of ...

Benjamin Domenech interviews Medicare Trustee Charles Blahous of the Mercatus Center about his Medicaid reform. ...

Is Climate Change a real danger? James Taylor speaks with Mike Segial about the human affect on the environment. Part 2 of a 2 part interview. ...

Is Climate Change a real danger? James Taylor speaks with Mike Segial about the human affect on the environment. Part 1 of a 2 part interview. ...