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How Utah is bringing hidden federal guidance into the open
Last week, a little-noticed change in federal employment discrimination policy took place. Federal officials are now only to investigate claims of intentional discrimination. In the past, the federal Equal Employment…
How Utah is bringing hidden federal guidance into the open
How Utah is bringing hidden federal guidance into the open Written by Many current controversies implicate the principle of federalism, but that principle is not always well understood. Rather than viewing states as rights…
Who’s Serving Who? Controversy Swirls Around Education Foundations
In Texas, education foundations are supposed to support public school districts through fundraising, making donations, and offering other supportive services. However, as documented in a recent report, these foundations…
Hospital price transparency is good, but its impact will be limited
A patient with chest pain is not sitting in the back of an ambulance comparing hospital prices on her phone. Nor will most patients comparison-shop when an insurer or government program pays most of the bill. That is the…
Washington Tax Collections Are Running Below Forecast as the Economy Softens
Three months after lawmakers raised taxes to balance this year's supplemental budget, the revenue those taxes were supposed to deliver is already coming in short.The Economic and Revenue Forecast Council's June…
The roadmap to restore trust in elections | Matthew Weil & Derek Monson
Election integrity is back in the headlines. But beneath the political arguments lies a more important question: what actually builds trust in elections? On this episode of Defending Ideas, Nic Dunn is joined by Matthew Weil,…
The roadmap to restore trust in elections | Matthew Weil & Derek Monson
Election integrity is back in the headlines. But beneath the political arguments lies a more important question: what actually builds trust in elections? On this episode of Defending Ideas, Nic Dunn is joined by Matthew Weil,…
Trading one bad healthcare system for another is not a solution
If you don’t want Washingtonians to experience the healthcare access problems, waitlists, lack of choice, high taxes and rationing practices that people in countries with taxpayer-funded universal healthcare experience, you…
The Seattle “PayUp” tax is a failed experiment hurting workers, restaurants, and consumers
Two years after Seattle implemented its landmark app-based worker minimum payment ordinance, better known as the “PayUp” law, the results are in, and they confirm what we at the Washington Policy Center warned from the…
Report Reveals Uncle Sam Has No Idea If Feds Are Handing Out Taxpayer Dollars To Wrong People
A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the government cannot tell if it is handing taxpayer dollars to individuals on the “do not pay list,” Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst exclusively shared…
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