A recent Gallup nationwide poll, which asked respondents to choose among big government, big labor and big business, found that 69% of those surveyed identified big government as the 'biggest threat to America’s future.'
If you can somehow manage to go to school full time while holding down a job, there is less than a 15 percent chance that you’ll ever earn your degree.
This morning Bill Bennett read aloud TPPF President and CEO Brooke Rollins' thoughts on American history in the wake of the South Carolina primaries.
Simply put, the President’s Power Plan has no legal effect whatsoever during the entire judicial review process, and states and agencies should 'put their pencils down.'
Nothing is more important to the future of our society than the education of our youth.
The inertia of the environmental industrial complex might still prevail unless affirmative action is taken.
America is exceptional because the men and women who occupy office stand before temptation but accept their limits nonetheless.
This post draws from TPPF’s comprehensive explanation of Texas school finance, available here. It’s common to hear support for increased education funding—last year a statewide Texas Tribune / UT poll found that about 60 percent of Texans thought that added funding would improve public schools. [1] This isn’t shocking. Since the early 70s, most Americans have...
Texas often has the highest title insurance rates in the nation, adding significant costs for both homeowners and businesses engaging in real estate transactions.
Center for Fiscal Policy Economist Dr. Vance Ginn explains how Texas is leading the nation in exports for the fourteenth year in a row.
Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence & Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment Hon. Kathleen Hartnett White discusses in length what the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to halt the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan means.
Texas requires licensing for 33 percent of these occupations, but charges slightly more in average fees, $304, and quite a bit less in mandatory training, 326 days.