Backgrounder: Immigrant Spending Questions
by T. Norman Van Cott When immigrants, legal or illegal, earn money by working in the United States, what happens to the dollars? One possibility is that they spend them on goods and services sold in the United States, not necessarily on the things that they are producing, but on the wide variety of items Read the full article…
I.U.’s Continuing Search for a Nice Guy Who Finishes First
by Craig Ladwig One of my favorite lines was delivered by the provost at my daughter’s college: “The only thing in life that is exactly as it seems is professional wrestling.” The search for a new Indiana University basketball coach will fall well outside that definition. It is not a search for a winning coach, Read the full article…
Backgrounder: Stretching the Meaning of ‘Economic Development’
by Fred McCarthy The headline on a recent article out of Indianapolis says, “Council Panel OKs $148K to Fund ‘Economic Recovery Coordinator.’” The text tells us that the city council’s Metropolitan and Economic Development Corp. there approved $147,916 (for “salary and some basic administrative costs”) to fund the first year of the three-year contract position. Read the full article…
Backgrounder: Replacing ObamaCare with a Choice
by David Thomas, Ph.D. The political tumult surrounding the proposed replacement of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) with a Republican alternative (Trumpcare), underpins a greater concern felt by many households: Will another inside-the-beltway proposal, imposed by the majority du jour, be an improvement over the previous effort, foisted on the minority? Or does another painful Read the full article…
Backgrounder: Luke Kenley Redux?
For the use of the membership only. IF YOU HANG AROUND LONG ENOUGH you begin to recognize historic moments. So it was when several officers of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation sat down for afternoon coffee in Indianapolis almost 20 years ago with two bright young stars of the conservative movement. Stephen Moore, a friend Read the full article…
Op-Ed: Mayoral Power
by Cmdr. John Pickerill Power corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely. That is why the America tradition has always been separation of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial. By separating powers we citizens are better protected against government corruption or tyrannical behavior. One branch of government can hold the other in check. But somewhere Read the full article…
