The Importance of National Employee Freedom Week

08/22/2016

The mission of NEFW is to inform government workers about their options for obtaining more freedom and flexibility in the workplace. This effort includes the participation of 86 groups located in 39 states around the nation.

TAGS: Heritage Foundation, National Employee Freedom Week, Right to Work

Medicaid Expansion: Even Worse Than You Thought

By Ben Kilpatrick

05/06/2013

Not only does Medicaid place an unreasonable burden on taxpayers, it fails to deliver a significant health benefit to the poor.

TAGS: GAO, Heritage Foundation, Louisiana Legislature, Louisiana State Medical Society, Medicaid expansion, ObamaCare, President Obama, Welfare

Louisiana Voucher Applications Roll Forward Despite Union Lawsuits

By Kevin Mooney

07/02/2012

Thousands of school voucher applicants who want to exit unsafe, ineffective public schools made history on Friday. That was the deadline for eligible families to apply for scholarship funds that can be used to cover the cost of private school tuition.

TAGS: Bobby Jindal, Charter Schools, Education, Education Reform, Friedman Foundation, Heritage Foundation, Louisiana Association of Educators, Louisiana Federation of Teachers, School choice, teachers unions, Vouchers

Obama Health Care Exchange: Not the Answer for Louisiana

By Kevin Kane

05/15/2012

Last week the Louisiana Budget Project (LBP) published a response to our critique of the health insurance exchange proposed by Sen. Karen Carter Peterson in SB744. We have reviewed their arguments in favor of the exchange and find them unpersuasive.

TAGS: Free Market, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Heritage Foundation, Louisiana Legislature, ObamaCare, Taxes

One in Five Louisianans Live Below The Poverty Line

By Robert Ross

09/22/2011

21.6 percent of Louisianans are living in poverty, the second highest in the country, while the average household income has decreased 13% since 2009.

TAGS: Cato Institute, Dan MItchell, Heritage Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, Poverty Rate, Trudi Renwick, U.S. Census Bureau, War On Poverty

ObamaCare Opponents Differ Sharply Over Strategy at ALEC Conference

By Kevin Mooney

08/08/2011

A dispute over the merits and potential defects of health care exchange systems continued to rage last week at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) annual meeting in New Orleans as state officials expressed concern over ObamaCare’s Medicaid mandates.

TAGS: American Legislative Exchange Council, Cato Institute, health care exchanges, Heritage Foundation, Judge Roger Vinson, Medicaid, ObamaCare, patient protection and affordable care act

Jindal’s Opposition to Health Care Exchanges Fuels Debate Among Conservatives

By Kevin Mooney

07/26/2011

Libertarians with the Cato Institute ardently endorse Gov. Bobby Jindal's resistance to health care exchanges that could be used to implement ObamaCare regulations. But other Republicans say the exchanges can be used to advance free market reforms.

TAGS: Cato Institute, Gov. Bobby Jindal, health care exchanges, Heritage Foundation, ObamaCare, Rep. William Cassidy

Ten Oil Rigs Have Exited Gulf Since Obama Moratorium Went Into Effect

By Kevin Mooney

07/20/2011

Ten oil rigs have left the Gulf of Mexico since the Obama Administration imposed a moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling in May 2010 documentation from Sen. David Vitter's (R-La.) office shows. Companies will not recommit themselves to the Gulf region until the "political uncertainty" recedes.

TAGS: Gulf of Mexico, Heritage Foundation, Louisiana, Moratorium, oil rigs, President Obama, Sen. David Vitter

New Welfare Reform Plan Seeks to Put Recipients to Work

By Robert Ross

03/25/2011

Republican House members introduce the Welfare Reform Act of 2011, which is set to expand the reforms of the mid-1990s. The reform comes on the heels of U.S. Census Bureau data showing one in seven Americans live at or below the poverty line.

TAGS: Heritage Foundation, House Republican Study Committee, Jim Jordan, Katherine Bradley, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Welfare Reform Act of 2011

Washington Examiner Op-Ed Highlights Dwindling Tax Revenues from Gulf

By Fergus Hodgson

01/14/2011

In today’s Washington Examiner, Robert Bluey of the Heritage Foundation sounds the alarm over the loss of tax revenue usually drawn from drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

TAGS: Heritage Foundation, Moratorium, Robert Bluey

Antitrust & Enforcement: Letting Markets Work without Empowering Government

In their report “Antitrust & Enforcement: Letting Markets Work without Empowering Government,” Ted Bolema, Ph.D., J.D., Antitrust and Competition Fellow at the Innovators Network Foundation, and Vance Ginn, Ph.D., Chief Economist at the Pelican Institute, write that while the current frustrations with the size of large tech companies and censorship practices may be warranted, giving...

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