Florida will be a pivotal battleground in the US elections in November, but on the crucial subject of education reform the battle in that state is already joined. In the past five years Florida has delivered real school choice to more American schoolchildren than anywhere else in the country.
In November 2002, Oregon voters followed the national trend by narrowly passing Measure 25, a piece of legislation that raises the minimum wage from $6.50 to $6.90. The measure also requires the minimum wage to be adjusted to the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Oregon’s minimum wage laws will
With the attention on Israel being focused primarily on the Palestinian issue, what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that the country’s welfare state is also on the verge of a dramatic overhaul. The movement for renewing economic freedom, led by Ehud Rassabi and former Prime Minister Benjamin
It is often alleged that the welfare state and a “freedom from want” will bring about a crime-free utopia, where individuals are given all that they need and the reassurance that their behaviour has been dictated by their environment. However, after interviewing thousands of patients from the lowest rung
Every year, a new scientific article professes that we are close to an oil shortage and catastrophe. This January, Caltech physics Professor David Goodstein argued that the peak of world production is imminent and that “we can, all too easily, envision a dying civilisation, the landscape littered with rusting
