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Teachers unions causing schools and students to fail
Washington Times | June 6, 2022
Lance Izumi
Recently in Time magazine, American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten argued, “Far-right advocates of privatizing public education are using Big Lies to undermine public schools.”
However, in an eye-opening resignation letter, Oakland school board member Shanthi Gonzales, a former labor organizer, shows that it is the teachers union that is causing schools and students to fail.
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Empower Entrepreneurs to Improve Outcomes: The Case of Integrated Care
Forbes | Wayne Winegarden
June 7, 2022
Entrepreneurs, empowered by competitive markets, drive economic progress. When market regulations incentivize productive activities, entrepreneurs radically improve existing goods and services and create new products we never knew that we couldn’t live without.
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Single-Payer 'Medicare for All' Would Inflate Americans' Healthcare Bills
Times of San Diego | Sally Pipes
June 7, 2022
Inflation is ripping through every sector of the U.S. economy. But there’s one curious exception: healthcare.
The cost of medical care is up 3.5% in the last year. The overall inflation rate, by contrast, is nearly two-and-a-half times higher — 8.3%.
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The 2nd Amendment and Me
Right by the Bay | Steve Smith
June 3, 2022
Full disclosure – I represent one of the 40% or so households in America that has a gun in it. A legally obtained and stored firearm that has never been on any list for potential regulation.
Last week’s murder of 19 school children and 2 of their teachers in Uvalde Texas has filled me with nauseating grief and anger. The photographs of the victims can be seen on most news sources ([link removed]) and it seems both impossible and deeply tragic that their happy faces are no longer with their loved ones.
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