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Biden’s Inflation Plan Filled With Inaccuracies, Warped Analysis, and Flawed Solutions <[link removed]>- Misguided COVID-19 restrictions combined with Fed-financed government borrowing and spending set in motion the economic turmoil, skyrocketing inflation, and supply chain havoc Americans are
experiencing. The same politicians who acquiesced to the misguided COVID-19 shutdowns and irresponsible spending point to the Fed as the culprit, refusing to take responsibility for their role in the economic disaster. This “plan” to fight inflation is actually a blueprint for more misery: more government spending, more labor regulations, more attacks on energy production, and massive tax hikes on businesses. A full recovery—including functioning supply chains—requires a full reopening across the world, unleashing of our fossil fuel energy resources here at home, and a cessation of using the central bank to finance deficit spending. Heritage Expert: Joel
Griffith <[link removed]> and EJ
Antoni <[link removed]>
OPRF to implement race-based grading system in 2022-23 school year <[link removed]>—No parent wants their child stereotyped and judged based on the color of their skin instead of their choices and behaviors. The surveys we reviewed in our volume The Critical Classroom <[link removed]> demonstrate that parents reject racial bias. This school proposal rejects the core American ideals of equality under the law and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which says individuals cannot be discriminated against based on their race or ethnicity. My book, Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth <[link removed]>, explains the importance of this law and how the provision stands in stark contrast to critical race theory's victimhood culture. School officials must judge children based on their hard work and merit and not adopt lower academic standards, which will leave students unprepared for school and life. Heritage Experts: Jonathan Butcher <[link removed]> and Mike Gonzalez <[link removed]>
Health Care: Time to Go on Offense <[link removed]>—The Biden Administration’s health care policies are failing Americans. Sixteen months into the Administration, the three major government health programs—Obamacare, Medicaid, and Medicare—are all worse off today than before. The Administration’s policy solutions do little to address the root causes and in many ways make matters worse. The only effective way to resolve persistent problems in health care is to leverage the power of personal choice and market competition. Congress should lay the groundwork for a more patient-centered, market-based health care system. This system would give individuals and families greater control of their health care dollars and decisions while also reducing costs and improving quality through increased competition and transparency in the health care sector. Heritage Expert: Nina Owcharenko Schaefer <[link removed]>
Social Media Is Hurting Kids, but a Fix May Be on Horizon <[link removed]> - Big Tech companies are aware <[link removed]> of the effect they have on young people and yet continue to forge ahead <[link removed]> and even expand <[link removed]> their efforts. Mental health aside, these companies poison American youth with content <[link removed]> that warps <[link removed]> their perceptions of reality and even impairs the development of their consciences. Big Tech companies build addictive properties <[link removed]>, now aimed deliberately at children, directly into the design of their products. With the race to court the next generation growing more competitive <[link removed]>, no doubt they will enhance these properties for a “valuable but untapped <[link removed]>” preteen audience. We can see the effects with our own eyes. The erosion of character, increasing atomization, and difficulty forming genuine relationships in real life among today’s children are enough to stunt a nation going forward. Heritage Expert: Kara
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Biden Administration Implements a Racial Spoils System <[link removed]> - The Biden administration is doubling <[link removed]> down on the color-conscious policies that were the hallmark of its first year in office through a series of “action plans,” which it released through every executive bureaucracy last month. Only this time, in a bid to avert legal reversals, the administration is concealing its racial spoils system under bureaucratic euphemisms. As we explain in a new report <[link removed]>, the administration’s 25 plans will implement discrimination as the official policy of the executive branch; make the government much less efficient; award contracts to uncompetitive bidders, thereby wasting taxpayer money, impair national defense, and further hamper the drive for excellence—or even adequacy—in the
nation’s schools. Heritage Experts: David
Ditch <[link removed]>, Mike
Gonzalez <[link removed]>, and Erin
Dwinell <[link removed]>
Opportunities Abound for Further U.S.–South Korean Cyber Cooperation <[link removed]> - Opportunities abound to increase U.S. cyber cooperation with President Yoon’s government at a time of increasing cyber threats emanating from not only North Korea but also from China, Russia, Iran, and criminal actors seeking to infiltrate critical infrastructure and weaponize lucrative financial attacks on digital currency exchanges. Silver-bullet solutions for a constantly evolving cyber environment do not exist, but both sides of the Pacific can learn many lessons as the United States and South Korea continue to develop layered cyber defense apparatuses, and as they seek to deter and impose costs on foreign cyber adversaries and criminal groups, especially those in China and North Korea. Heritage Expert: Dustin Carmack <[link removed]>
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