Policy articles
Idaho’s public colleges’ “inclusion” efforts promote victimhood
Idaho’s post-secondary schools have joined the legion of left-leaning institutions that are using their campuses as state-sponsored platforms for intolerance, division, and victimhood. Hurt in the process are students, taxpayers, and donors to college scholarship [...]
Jobs are plentiful, but Idaho teens aren’t working
Though their population has increased, there are fewer Idaho teenagers in the workforce than there were 20 years ago. In 1998, more than 25,000 Idahoans between the ages of 14 and 18 were employed, two [...]
IRS redux? Feds snub top-performing ‘Freedom’ credit union, but bend the rules for Big Labor
Federal regulators need to explain why they’ve granted a perpetually-floundering California credit union that serves organized labor permission to raise money from investors—especially considering those regulators haven’t given the same green light to a strong [...]
Idaho’s education task force is just political cover for more spending
The push for more education spending came at lightning speed — less than one week after Gov. Brad Little announced his K-12 public education task force. Idaho Education Association President Kari Overall and the executive director of [...]
Medicaid expansion myths persist
A handful of Medicaid expansion myths persist in the public sphere, not because they have any factual basis, but rather because Democrats and progressives see these distortions as useful to their political agenda. Facts are [...]
