🍎📝✏️ As we approach the end of the school year, many families are making decisions about what will work best for their children this fall. If anything, this past year showcased the failure of government-run schools.

It is time to put kids first. It’s time to give parents a choice in how and where their children learn. And it’s time to allow education funding to follow students. 

Do you think parents should have leverage to ensure that their children will not be left behind?
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HURTING NOT HELPING

Mr. President, Household Finances Are Skating on Thin Ice

President Joe Biden can’t understand why Americans are not sold on his spin about the economy. It’s an easy answer: their household finances are in a tough place and they are falling behind. Carefully-selected macroeconomic data points do not outweigh the rising costs of day-to-day necessities. Inflation is up and so is debt, but savings are dwindling. Many families are a paycheck away from homelessness and a hospital bill away from financial ruin. Americans are right to peg their tenuous financial situation on the president’s policies because the buck truly stops at the president’s desk. Read more.

DID YOU KNOW

West Virginia Sets an Example for School Choice

West Virginia has recently become the newest of only ten states to offer K-12 students the option of an Education Savings Account, a major step in furthering the education freedom movement in the state. The ESA acts as a scholarship, allowing students to receive a sum of money to be used for educational expenses outside the public school system. Families who are accepted into the program may use the scholarship for private school tuition and fees, homeschooling materials, tutoring services, after school and summer school programs, educational services and therapies, and other state-approved educational endeavors. Read more.

IN THE NETWORK

LAST CALL: #IWReads Book Club

Hear from one of America's most respected pollsters and White House advisors on how she survived and succeeded in male-dominated industries. 

Join our next #IWReads Book Club event on June 16 at 6:00 p.m. ET for a very special evening event with Kellyanne Conway to discuss her brand-new book, Here’s the Deal.

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TWO TRUTHS & A LIE

Protecting Lending Services for Unbanked, Low-Income Americans

While the vast majority of Americans possess checking and savings accounts, use credit cards, and finance major purchases with loans, a surprisingly large share of them struggle with barriers to opening and maintaining financial accounts. 

Can you identify which of the following statements about lending services is not true? 

A. Unbanked and underbanked consumers are among the most vulnerable populations in America.
B. Fintech firms act as barriers to expanding access to banking for Americans.
C. Regulatory interventions, including interest rate caps, can harm unbanked Americans.
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She Thinks Podcast

  • New Episode: Kash Patel, former Department of Defense chief of staff during the Trump administration, joined the program to discuss his book, The Plot Against the KingListen here.
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  • Next Episode: On Friday, Erika Bachiochi, fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and Abigail Adams Institute, will appear on the show to discuss her book, The Rights of Women, and why she is supporting IWF's Women's Bill of Rights. Hear it here.

CAPSULE REVIEW

Debts and Regrets

Last week, the White House announced plans to cancel $10,000 in student debt per borrower. But a recent report from the Federal Reserve Board suggests that student debt is not as staggering as advocates of loan forgiveness claim — and offers insights into why some feel those burdens more acutely than others.

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First Hospitals Fined for Not Practicing Price Transparency

The federal government fined two hospitals in Georgia for failing to provide consumers with online prices for medical services, a move that comes over a year after federal law began requiring hospitals to be fully transparent about costs.

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