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Public funds used for LGBT Pride events were cut, but government waste remains

By Niklas Kleinworth
May 1, 2023
Idaho lawmakers cut nearly $707,000 of funds that had been intended for smoking cessation ads but were used, in part, to sponsor LGBT Pride events. These public funds support the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare’s Project Filter campaign, a social program meant to provide free smoking cessation supplies for those who want to quit. […]
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The legislature began to defund radical gender ideology, but the fight is not over

By Niklas Kleinworth
April 26, 2023
Lawmakers cut or redirected almost $720,000 in funds being used to sexualize youth throughout Idaho. This money consisted of federal grants that were used to support sex education endorsed by Planned Parenthood.  Eliminating this misuse of taxpayer funds is a victory for efforts to preserve childhood innocence and the stability of the nuclear family. Over […]
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Idaho State Board follows IFF Center for American Education’s recommendation to prohibit diversity statements in higher ed

By Anna Miller
April 26, 2023
The Idaho State Board of Education has followed our recommendation to ban coercive “diversity statements” in higher education.  The board passed a resolution “prohibiting either requesting or requiring written diversity statements from candidates applying for employment at Idaho’s public four-year universities.” Idaho Freedom Foundation’s Center for American Education has been exposing the use of diversity […]
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The Power of the Idaho Freedom Index

By Ronald M. Nate, Ph.D.
April 24, 2023
In just over 10 years of existence, the Idaho Freedom Index (IFI) has proven to be the Tesseract of Idaho politics. Score well, and your political profile is good; score low, and you have some explaining to do. Haters want to destroy it, but its power goes on. So, why is there so much love […]
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Library Sophistry

By Brent Regan
April 21, 2023
Children are born with an amazing capacity for learning. Through observation, exploration and mimicry infants are able to decode human behavior. By age two, most have begun to understand that certain noises relate to certain concepts and that by uttering those sounds in a specific sequence they can begin to control their environment. Mastering the […]
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Lawmakers waste $161 million in taxpayer funds on Medicaid ineligibles cut from the program

By Niklas Kleinworth
April 19, 2023
This post was updated on April 25, 2023 at 9:18 am to correct a calculation error. The legislature budgeted for the removal of 13,000 ineligibles from the rolls meaning that of the 27,582 already cut from the rolls, 14,582 were unaccounted for in the FY2024 budget. This cost taxpayers $161 million more than necessary, not […]
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Idaho’s bathroom law protects students, but harms from transgender policies remain

By Anna Miller
April 18, 2023
At least 26 school districts in Idaho have adopted transgender student policies. These policies all enforce some variation of the same corrupt gender ideology. Some allow boys in girls’ bathrooms and require teachers to use the pronouns and name corresponding to a student’s gender identity, regardless of their deeply held religious or personal beliefs. Other […]
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Possible ethics violation in text message from Coeur d'Alene principal

By Branden Durst
April 15, 2023
Following the failure of the Coeur d'Alene school levy election in March, a local school principal sent a text message to staff saying she knew exactly which employees, spouses, and adult children did not vote in the election and warned that they needed to vote in the upcoming May redo election.  The text message from […]
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St. Luke's plots end-run around new law protecting children from gender mutilation

By Idaho Freedom Foundation staff
April 14, 2023
While we celebrate the passage of a bill preventing children from being mutilated at the hands of pseudoscience leftists, it appears the battle is far from over.  We learned this afternoon that officials at the St. Luke's medical system are already trying to find ways around the newly-signed House Bill 71 which protects minors from […]
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D.C. think tank was wrong to jeer IFF’s success ending government-funded needle exchange program

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President
April 14, 2023
If the government is to engage in any kind of a program, the politicians behind such a program need to look taxpayers in the eye and say, “We, the government, need your money more than you do.”  A concerned taxpayer might respond, “I was going to use my money to feed my family. Or pay […]
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2023 legislative session ended one government program

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President
April 11, 2023
It is rare that a government program, once started, ever goes away. No matter how bad or how useless the program is, once enacted, it tends to linger well past its sell-by date. But here’s a little good news from the 2023 Idaho legislative session: One program has been eliminated, saving taxpayers thousands of dollars.  […]
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It’s raining money in Idaho - FY24 sees the biggest state government spending increase in 22 years

By Fred Birnbaum
April 10, 2023
In fiscal year 2020 (FY20), the total appropriation (including federal money) for Idaho’s state government was $9 billion. The 2020 fiscal year ended at the beginning of the “COVID emergency.” For the fiscal year that starts on July 1, which is fiscal year 2024 (FY24), it will be $13.9 billion. That’s greater than a 50% […]
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