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This week, JLF’s Dr. Terry Stoops published a research brief examining how much American households will spend on back-to-school shopping this year. Dr. Stoops writes: According to the annual National…
In debates about whether schools have sufficient supplies and materials for the school year, the contributions of parents are too often overlooked. Whether it is through taxes or donations, families…
This is the first of a three-part series examining the issue of school supplies. Part 2 will address teacher expenditures on classroom items. Part 3 will assess state expenditures for…
If you believe this, then you believe Elvis is alive and well. When front-line tax agents in Cincinnati used the term “tea party,” they didn’t just mean conservative groups. Instead,…
Warren Wilson’s championship basketball team members filed into the Buncombe County Commissioners’ chambers, each putting their medallions around their necks. They had to take them off to go through the…
First of all, it is a shame that the government that is supposed to be protecting inalienable Constitutional rights presumes its loyal subjects must pay it $90 every five years,…
So, schools can afford condoms but not toilet paper? From The New York Times: When Emily Cooper headed off to first grade in Moody, Ala., last week, she was prepared…
When I went to the Soviet Union in 1990 I was told to take a bunch of those little Kleenex packs to keep in my camera bag. Why? Because the…
It?s nice to be able to write something positive about TIME?s ?Curious Capitalist? column. Perhaps the replacement of Justin Fox with Barbara Kiviat plays a role in my about-face. Kiviat…
I’m back from a conference in Spokane, Washington, with a head full of cold and a pocket full of Sudafed. Appropriately, on the return flight we learned from the Spokane…