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“Ohio needs flexible and affordable school choice, especially under COVID-19’s ongoing threat”

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In the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Ohio Gadfly, Buckeye’s Greg Lawson writes, “Now more than ever Ohio needs well-designed ESA and school-choice programs that foster flexibility and affordability. Ohio doesn’t need regressive lawsuits and anti-education efforts designed to wrest control away from parents, limit learning options, and further empower the public school monolith that has failed our children for too long.” 

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Drug sentencing reform is the right policy for Ohio

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The Buckeye Institute has long advocated for the important policy changes included in Senate Bill 3. In an piece for The Center Square, Buckeye’s Robert Alt outlines why these reforms are so important, writing, "The Ohio Senate will soon vote on a criminal justice reform bill…This new measure will go a long way toward reducing Ohio’s prison population and helping to ensure that those suffering from addiction receive necessary treatment, return home to their families, and can find and keep work without a low-level 'felony possession' preemptively disqualifying them at their next job interview."

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“Ohio should expand school choice during the coronavirus crisis, not constrict it”

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On Cleveland.com, Buckeye’s Greg Lawson looks at education policies that put the needs of families and students first, writing, “Rather than end a program that has benefited thousands of Ohio’s children, and return to the one-size-fits all education approach that has failed so many students, policymakers should look for smart and innovative solutions that put the needs of students and families first.”

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Let’s keep removing barriers to health care

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In The Columbus Dispatch, Buckeye’s James Woodward, Ph.D., outlines how Ohio can expand access to health care—particularly in rural Ohio— by permanently expanding access to telehealth, reducing employment barriers for advanced practice registered nurses, allowing pharmacists to provide the medical care they are trained to provide and recognizing out-of-state licenses for medical professionals.

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The Buckeye Institute: Eliminating Tariffs Will Help Revive the Economy

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In a new policy memo, Policy Solutions for the Pandemic: Remove Tariffs to Access Critical Supplies and Restart the Economy, The Buckeye Institute called for the elimination of tariffs and trade barriers on essential equipment and medical products used in the fight against COVID-19. The memo further outlines why policymakers should permanently eliminate tariffs to jumpstart dormant economic activity.

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Moves by state can get us through pandemic

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In The Columbus Dispatch, Buckeye’s Rea Hederman looks at policy solutions that can get Ohio through the pandemic. Hederman writes, “Responding to COVID-19 requires leadership, fortitude, cooperation and clear thinking. It requires public officials, businesses, volunteer organizations and individuals working together with our health care communities to keep our families healthy and our economy strong. This can and will be done, and Ohio will make a full recovery.”

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Give FERC a Chance

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In The Center Square, Buckeye’s Rea Hederman looks at a new rule by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that requires wholesale electricity grid operator, PJM, to set a new price floor for bids to supply electric capacity to PJM’s 13-state mid-Atlantic/Midwest region. State utility regulators in the region are unimpressed by the rule some have even threatened to leave the PJM market altogether. Such threats are premature and could be bad for customers.

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Invest in Iowa Act Offers Taxpayer Relief and Economic Growth

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On the Caffeinated Thoughts blog, Buckeye’s Andrew Kidd and TEF-Iowa’s John Hendrickson look how tax reform in Iowa can lead to relief for taxpayers and economic growth for the state. Kidd and Hendrickson write, “The Invest in Iowa Act takes a solid stride on a better path forward, but it is not the final word on tax reform…Even lower income tax rates and fewer special interest carve-outs and credits, for example, would help Iowa get off the ‘least tax-friendly states in the nation’ list.”

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