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School Choice is Driving Entrepreneurship in Education & the Workforce - Education savings accounts continue to change the way Arizona families think about their child’s K-12 school experience, despite Gov. Katie Hobbs’ threats to cut the program. Over the last year, the accounts have also changed the way businesses and entrepreneurs think about education, too. Heritage Expert: Jonathan Butcher
The House Republican Probe You Should Be Watching - Yet the Biden administration might well resemble that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in its use of sheer government force to push a partisan agenda. Biden signed Executive Order 14019 in March 2021, calling for every federal agency to “promote voter registration and voter participation” and to expand access to “accurate election information.” Don’t worry. We’re assured that this is nonpartisan — despite the obvious questions it raises about whether the executive branch might try to tip the scales for electoral gain. However, the Biden administration hasn’t been responsive to multiple requests over the last year from more than 50 House Republicans, inquiring about the nature of this voter-participation push. Heritage Expert: Fred Lucas
The Biden Classified Documents Fiasco: What Do We Know So Far? - The information provided to the public has come from people who work for, or are otherwise close to, President Joe Biden and has been filtered selectively through a media largely predisposed to protect the president. According to Bob Bauer, who is Biden’s personal attorney and a former White House counsel and longtime Democratic power broker whose wife (Anita Dunn) is a senior adviser to the president, the classified documents were “unexpectedly discovered” on Nov. 2 (six days before the midterm elections) by one or more members of the president’s team of personal lawyers. Heritage Expert: Cully Stimson
‘This Is a Crisis’: Why Americans Should Care About China’s Shrinking Population - For the first time in six decades, the most populous country in the world has a shrinking population. Michael Cunningham, a research fellow in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation, says “this is a crisis that’s been decades in the making” and it will likely shock the global economy. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.) “Really since at least the 1990s China has known that its population was going to decline,” Cunningham says. “For decades it has had this draconian policy, this population control policy. For most of the time, it was people were limited to one child only, and so in many cases, they would fine people if they had more than one child.” Heritage Expert: Michael Cunningham
Most Americans Oppose Debt Ceiling Hike Except With One Key Concession - Sixty-one percent of 1,000 registered voters in the survey said Congress should either raise the debt ceiling with spending cuts (45%) or refuse to raise the ceiling at all (16%). Only about a quarter (24%) said Congress should raise the ceiling without accompanying spending cuts. The remaining 15% said they were “not sure.” RMG Research asked voters, “The debt ceiling places a limit on how much money the federal government can borrow to pay its bills. If the debt ceiling is not raised in the near future, the government will be unable to pay all of its legal obligations after the middle of this year. How should Congress address this problem?” Heritage Expert: Tyler O’Neil and Richard Stern
The Heritage Foundation Announces New Freedom and Opportunity Academic Prize - The new prize, which is currently accepting applicants through March1, will award prizes between $5,000 and $25,000 to full-time and adjunct faculty members at U.S. colleges, universities, or seminaries who are actively engaged in research and teaching that advances Heritage’s current priority issues as well as broader issues related to freedom and opportunity. Prize winners will also be invited to participate in a Summer Colloquium and Workshop. Heritage Expert: Richard Reinsch
Americans need to know how much government goodies will cost them. It's more than most want to pay - The disconnect between how Americans handle their own personal finances — where buying an expensive home and failing to pay the mortgage will land you on the streets — and their views of government spending has some logical rationale, though. The hidden consequences of excessive government spending and exploding debt — things like a smaller economy, lower incomes and slower technological growth — aren’t apparent because we only know what we have experienced and not what could have been. Additionally, the future unresolved consequences of that spending and debt are decidedly negative: How could over $230,000 of total government debt per household — debt that must eventually be repaid — not burden younger and future generations? Heritage Expert: Rachel Greszler