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Thousands of Kansas families stick with homeschooling after getting a taste during the pandemic
KMUW | Lance Izumi
December 1, 2021
“This increase in homeschooling is something that was ratcheting up for many years prior to the pandemic, but the pandemic has certainly jump-started it and caused it to spike,” said Lance Izumi, author of “The Homeschool Boom.” During the early stages of lockdowns, parents got front-row seats to their children’s schooling. That, Izumi said, “demystified the learning process for them.”
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Lanhee Chen: California Transparency and Accountability
PRI Next Round
December 6, 2021
Lanhee Chen, Director of the Domestic Policy Studies in Public Policy program at Stanford University, discusses all things California, from budgetary mismanagement – including COVID-19 relief funds, the looming pension crisis, as well as government accountability and transparency. One of the state’s leading policy experts, Lanhee Chen provides his perspective on the issues facing California.
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Latest Medicaid Data Show A Deeply Broken Program
Forbes.com | Sally C. Pipes
December 6, 2021
Congress created Medicaid in 1965 to cover indigent Americans, including the blind, the disabled, the impoverished elderly, and mothers of dependent children. Enrollment skyrocketed almost immediately—from about 4 million in 1966, about 2% of the U.S. population at the time, to 14 million by 1970, or 7% of the population.
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Wayne Winegarden talks entrepreneurship series on Live from Seattle
Live from Seattle KGNW | Tim Gaydos
December 6, 2021
Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow in business and economics, discusses the Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity series on entrepreneurship on “Live from Seattle” with host Tim Gaydos on KGNW Radio in Seattle.
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How well do you know your federal government? Take the Deep State Quiz
PRI Right By the Bay | Rowena Itchon
December 8, 2021
This eye-popping report shows just how big and bloated — not to mention costly — the federal government has become. We turned some of the data Open the Books uncovered into this Deep State Quiz, but we encourage Right by the Bay readers to go through the entire report – especially with Pres. Biden’s Build Back Better spending program now estimated to be at $2 trillion dollars.
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