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There is too much government intrusion in our lives—an intrusion that limits personal freedoms and opportunities to prosper. The Buckeye Institute promotes policies that limit government intrusion and increase freedom and opportunity so that you can prosper from your hard work. Buckeye uses its independent and rigorous research to cut through the clutter and noise and offers commonsense policy solutions to our most challenging problems—policies that improve people’s lives, reduce government intrusion, and increase freedom and opportunity.
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- Healthcare report once it is published
- Net-Zero Climate-Control Policies Will Fail the Farm
- Sustainable Ohio: How to Fund Ohio’s Cities in the 21st Century
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As Ohio policymakers turn their focus to the state’s 2020-2021 biennial budget, The Buckeye Institute’s Economic Research Center released Sustaining Economic Growth: Tax and Budget...
In a Rust Belt swing state where “tough on crime” has been the norm for decades, one think tank has dared to challenge preconceived notions about crime, ex-offenders and why it’s so...
Ohio ranks an unimpressive 38th out of all 50 states in this year’s Economic Freedom of North America report, released by the Economic Research Center at The Buckeye Institute in partnership...
A new report, Healthy and Working: Benefits of Work Requirements for Medicaid Recipients, by The Buckeye Institute’s Economic Research Center found that work and community engagement...
New research conducted by The Buckeye Institute’s Economic Research Center found that tax increases being considered by policymakers in Louisiana would lead to a loss of jobs and a decline in...
In The Ohio Model for Bail Reform: Retaining Local Flexibility and Saving Money, The Buckeye Institute looked at Summit County, which uses a verified risk-assessment tool to inform pretrial...
In a new study for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University The Buckeye Institute’s Rea S. Hederman Jr. and the Galen Institute’s Doug Badger argue that Congress and...
In The Buckeye Institute’s most recent policy brief, Broadband “GON” Wrong: Remembering Why Government-Owned Broadband Networks Are Bad for Taxpayers, Buckeye looks at the...
As the Ohio General Assembly prepares to consider the 2018 capital budget, The Buckeye Institute released Principled Spending: Using Ohio’s Capital Budget to Benefit Ohioans. The report...