Tag: Kansas Policy Institute
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National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for Kansas
Looking at Kansas school test scores as compared to the nation.
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Wichita economic development examined
“What may look like economic growth on the surface ends up being, upon closer scrutiny, an expensive exercise in the rearrangement of existing business activity.”
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Regulation reform could jump-start Kansas economy after COVID
The COVID-19 outbreak has not only posed a severe public health risk, but actions to combat it now risk a global economic collapse, writes Michael Austin.
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Kansas tax credit scholarship program
An op-ed in the Wichita Eagle regarding school choice prompts uninformed and misinformed comments.
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Kansans voted for growth, not stagnation
Kansans need of a new way of thinking. They won’t get that from a Democrat or Republican as governor, writes Michael Austin, Director of the Sandlian Center for Entrepreneurial Government at the Kansas Policy Institute.
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Sedgwick County and Wichita issues
The end of a Sedgwick County Commission election, the *Wichita Eagle* editorializes on school spending and more taxes, and Wichita Mayor Jeff Longwell seems misinformed on the Wichita economy.
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Kansas candidate briefings
Recently Kansas Policy Institute, along with Americans for Prosperity and Kansas Chamber of Commerce, held a series of briefings for candidates for the Kansas Legislature.
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WichitaLiberty.TV: What Was Really the Matter with the Kansas Tax Plan
Dave Trabert of Kansas Policy Institute joins Bob and Karl to discuss his new book What Was Really the Matter with the Kansas Tax Plan –- The Undoing of a Good Idea.
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What Was Really the Matter with the Kansas Tax Plan
Tax relief opponents have repeatedly pointed to the 2012 Kansas tax plan as their primary example of why tax cuts do not work. But, other states like North Carolina, Indiana, and Tennessee contemporaneously, and successfully, cut taxes. What was different about the Kansas experience?
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Kansas State of the State for 2018
James Franko of Kansas Policy Institute joins Karl Peterjohn to discuss Governor Brownback’s State of the State Address for 2018. Topics include schools and Medicaid expansion.
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Wichita job growth
Wichita economic development efforts viewed in context.
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Deconstructing Don Hineman
Another Kansas legislator explains why raising taxes was necessary. So he says.