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The Heartland Institute is a national nonprofit research and education organization, tax exempt under Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, and founded in Chicago in 1984. It is not affiliated with any political party, business, or foundation.

Heartland's mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Such solutions include parental choice in education, choice and personal responsibility in health care, market-based approaches to environmental protection, privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies.

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We focus on ideas that empower people to solve social and economic problems by expanding consumer choices in areas such as education, health care, and telecommunications.

We believe in free markets.

We believe in libertarian ideas.

We believe in empowering people.

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Student Loan Update 

Written By: Matthew Glans
Published In: Research & Commentary > 2008
Publication date: 08/23/2008
Publisher: The Heartland Institute

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One of the great tragedies affecting higher education today is the overpricing of an education that carries less and less value. Reliance on government aid by institutions that make student loans ultimately encourages poor spending habits, stifles financial innovation, and discourages prudent long-term saving by students and their parents.

The credit crisis has had a significant impact on the private student loan industry. Banks have become increasingly risk-averse, raising their loan qualification standards to levels that many consumers are unable to achieve. Despite the recent difficulties of the current crisis, total borrowing through private student loan companies grew by almost 900 percent over the past 10 years.

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Hearland and Their Publications 

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The Heartland Institute is a national nonprofit research and education organization, tax exempt under Section 501(c)3, founded in Chicago in 1984.

It has an annual budget of $2.2 million and approximately 1,500 donors and members.

It publishes monthly newspapers covering free market ideas in school reform, environmental protection, health care finance, and tax and budget matters.

Its main audiences are 8,700 elected officials and national elected officials, and 3,800 journalists at media outlets across the nation.

The Heartland Institute
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  • Literature
    Books & Studies
    Books and policy srucli are produced by The Hearrlan Institute, edited by its staff. reviewed by its 100-member B of Policy Advisors. Copies are sent to journalists, elected officials, think tanks, civic and business leaders, and Heartland supporters.
  • Speakers
    Senior Fellows
    Eight Heartland Senior Fellows travel the country giving speeches to audiences of all sizes. Heartland pays their honoraria, hosts pick up their travel expenses.

School Reform News 

School Reform News

With the launching of School Reform News in 1997, Heartland reinvented itself as a publisher of public policy newspapers aimed at state and national elected officials across the United States. This monthly publication features news and commentary on the national school reform movement, written by the country's leading experts.

School Reform News is a national outreach publication for the national movement for greater competition and choice in kindergarten to 12th-grade schooling. Topics addressed include chareter schools, tuition tax credits, vouchers, teachers and union activism, curriculum, and school finance.

58% of state elected officials read School Reform News and 21% of elected officials said School Reform News influenced their opinions or led to a change in public policy.
  • EDITOR
    Karla Dial dial@heartland.org
    Dial, managing editor of School Reform News, started her journalism career writing for a medical Web site ans was a features and sports reporter The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, CA. She is a contributing editor for Focus on the Family's Citizen magazine and an education writer for the Alliance Defense Fund.
  • CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
    Ben DeGrow Independence Institute
    Lori Drummer Alliance for School Choice
    David Kilpatrick U.S. Freedom Foundation
    Andy LeFevre REACH Fooundation
    Dan Lips The Heritage Foundation
    Neal McCluskey Cato Institute
    Vicki Murray Pacific Research Institute
    Connie Sadowski Austin CEO Foundtion
    Lisa Snell Reason Foundation
    Don Soifer Lexingotn Institute
    Matt Warner American Legislative Exchange Council
    Jim Waters Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions
  • Circulation
    23,752 Public and Catholic School Principles
    14,314 Direct Request
    13,753 Public school board presidents
    7,988 Local and community government officials
    7,849 State and national elected officials
    3,482 Charter school principles
    3,000 Conference distribution
    2,133 Donors/memers
    627 Media
    181 Advisors, board, and vips
  • 77,079 Print total
    1,369 Electronic
  • "School Reform News is essential reading for me. Without it I could never keep up with everything going on in the world of educaiton reform."
    - Neal P. McCluskey
    Policy Analyst
    Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute

 

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School Reform News is a 20-page monthly newspaper, published 11 times a year, reporting on school reform efforts nationwide. Its audience includes over 33,000 private school principals, administrators, and teachers; every state and national elected...

Environment & Climate News 

Environment & Climate News
Environment & Climate News, also launched in 1997, is the only national monthly newspaper devoted to sound science and market-based environmental protection. Topics addressed include climate change, air and water pollution, food safety, biotechnology, nuclear power, and wetlands.

58% of of state elected officials said they read Environment & Climate News and 19% said Environment & Climate News influenced opinions or led to a change in public policy
  • EDITOR
    James M. Taylor, taylor@heartland.org
    Taylor, managing editor of Environment & Climate News, recievd his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College and his Juris Doctor from the Syracuse University College of Law. He is the author or coauthor of three Heartland Policy Studies on environmental issuesand has appeared on the FoxNews Channel, "Good Morning America," and "Newsmakers" national radio programs. His writing on environmental issues has appeared in the Los Angeles Times. Houston Chronincle, Detroit News, Boston Globe, Tampa Tribune, and elswhere.
  • CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
    Dennis Avery Center for Global Food Issues
    Sterling Burnett Natioanl Center for Policy Analysis
    Robert Ferguson Science and Public Policy Institute
    Steve Milloy Competititve Enterprise Institute
    Todd Myers Washington Public Policy Institute
    Joel Schwartz American Enterprise Institute
    A. Fred Singer Science and Environmental Policy Project
    Tom Tanton Institute for Energy Research
  • CIRCULATION
    47,001 Environmental professionals
    7,990 Local and county government officials
    7,986 State and national enected officials
    3,000 Conference distribution
    2,739 Donors/members
    2,450 Subscribers
    958 Media
    331 Advisors, board, and vips
  • 72,455 Print total
    1,458 Electronic
  • "It is nice to see common-sense reporting for a change in the environmental arena."
    - Candy Spence Ezzell
    State Representative
    State of New Mexico

 

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The full text of the February 2009 issue of Environment & Climate News is now available on The Heartland Institute's Web site. Point your Web browser to http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=24565 to download the entire 20-page issue in Adob...

Health Care News 

Health Care News
Health Care News is the only national monthly publication devoted to consumer-driven health care reform. Topics addressed include health savings accounts, repeal of insurance mandates, tax fairness, defined contribution insurance, prescription drugs, and consumer choice.

54% of eelcted officials said that they read Health Care News sometimes of always and 21% said that Health Care News influenced thier opinion or led to a change in public policy.
  • EDITOR
    Jeff Emmanuel, emmanuel@heartland.org

    Emmanuel, managing editor of Health Care News, has written for The Weekly Standard, American Spectator, Human Events, Washington Times, Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal, and several other publications. He is a frequent guest on several national and major-market television and radio programs, including the 'Oreilly Factor and the Laura Ingraham Show. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1999-2004 as a tactical air controller and later returned to Iraq as an embedded reporter, working on the front lines in Baghdad, Salman Pak, Samarra, and elsewhere.
  • CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
    Joseph Coletti John Locke Foundation
    James P. Gelfand U.S. Chamber of Commerce
    John Goodman National Center for Policy Analysis
    Devon Herrick National Center for Policy Analysis
    Christie Herrera American Legislative Exchange council
    Greg Scandlen Consumers for Health Care Choices
    Grace-Marie Turner Galen Institute
  • CIRCULATION
    7,966 Local and county government officials
    7,878 State and national elected officials
    3,860 Direct requests
    2,829 Donors/members
    2,000 Conference distribution
    941 Media
    276 Advisers, board, and vips
  • 25,750 Print total
    1,367 Electronic
  • "Health Care News is must reading for everyone interested in Health Care in America."
    - Sally Pipes
    President
    Pacific Research Institute

 

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The full text of the February 2008 issue is now available on The Heartland Institute's Web site. Point your Web browser to http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=22592 to download the entire 20-page issue in Adobe Acrobat's PDF format, or click o...

Budget & Tax News 

Budget & Tax News
A national monthly newspaper advocating lower taxes and balanced budgets for states and the federal government. Topics addressed include income, sales, corporate, excise and property taxes, privatization, tax and expenditure limitations, and economic development strategies.

53% of state elected officials said they read Budget & Tax News and 23% of said that it either influenced their opinion or led to a change in public policy.
  • EDITOR
    Steve Stanek, stanek@heartland.org

    Stanek, managing editor of Budget & Tax News, was a freelance writer for the Chicago Tribune and other publications. He previously worked in corporate communications for Kemper Insurance Companies and was managing editor of three weekly newspapers in the Pioneer Press newspapaer chain in Chicago's suburbs.
  • CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
    John Skorburg Associate Editor
    Tonya Barr Tax Foundation
    Ryan Bedford Evergreen Freedom Foundation
    David Denholm Public Service Research Foundation
    Sandra Fabry American's for Tax Reform
    Robert Genetski Classical Principles
    Amber Gunn Evergreen Freedom Foundation
    Jason Mercier Washington Policy Center
    Dan Mitchell Cato Institute
    Johnathan Williams American Legislative Eschange Council
  • CIRCULATION
    7,965 Local and county government officials
    7,956 State and national elected officials
    1,770 Donors/members
    1,144 958 Media
    800 Conference distribution
    405 Direct request
  • 20,998 Print total
    732 Electronic
  • "Budget & Tax News helps me to stay up-to-date on tax-related issues and initiatives by my counterparts all across the country."
    - Daryl D. Metclafe
    State Representative
    Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

 

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The February 2009 issue of Budget & Tax News highlights the successes of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, whose fiscal prudence was rewarded at the polls in November and in praise from state elected officials and national opinion leaders alike. Also feat...

Info Tech & Telecom News 

Info Tech and Technology

A national monthly newsletter sent to state legislators and public utility commissioners providing commentary on information technology policy issues.

Info Tech & Telecom News is the only national monthly publication devoted to featuring the best research and commentary by information technology and telecom experts at such leading think tanks as the Cato Institute, The Heritage Foundation, Progress and Freedom Foundation, Reason Foundation, and others. Topics addressed include network neutrality, communications taxes, municipal broadband, antitrust, and consumer protection.

22% of state elected officals said they read Info Tech & Telecom News sometimes or always and said that Info Tech & Telecom News influenced their opinions or led to a change in public policy.
  • EDITOR
    Joshua Trevino
  • CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
    Clyde Wayne Crews Competitive Enterprise Institute
    James Gattuso The Heritage Foundation
    Diane Katz Makinac Center for Public Policy
    Randolph J. May The Free State Foundation
    Adam Thierer Progress & Freedom Foundation
  • CIRCULATION
    7,849 State and national elected officials
    1,130 State public utility commissioners
    885 Donors/members
    500 Conference distribution
    247 Media
  • 10,611 Print total
    179 Electronic
  • "IT&T News provides much-needed analysis of key issues in the technology sector. It is an excellent resource for anyone in the field.
    - David J. Hansen
    Presidnet
    Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions

Lawsuit Abuse Forthrightly 

Lawsuit Abuse Forthrightly
A biweekly two-page newsletter documenting cases of lawsuit abuse by trial lawyers, sent to journalists, civic and business leaders, allies and friends, and elected officials.
  • Circulation: 1,909

 

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Real examples of how predatory trial lawyers profit by depriving victims of justice and undermining the Rule of Law in the United States.

The Heartlander 

The Heartlander
The bimonthly membership newsletter for The Heartland Institute, sent to the organization's donors and members plus more than 1,000 think tank allies and colleagues.
  • Circulation: 3,422

September Z-5: Virtual Edition 

September 2008 Budget & Tax News (PDF)
The September 2008 issue of Budget & Tax News highlights research by the Institute for Truth in Accounting aimed at improving the transparency ... and accuracy ... of state budget processes.
September 2008 Envirnoment & climate News (PDF)
The September 2008 issue of Environment & Climate News addresses "bias and cronyism" at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and presents the third of a three-part bibliography of peer-reviewed studies that contradict global warming alarmism.
September 2008 Health Care News (PDF)
The September 2008 issue of Health Care News compares the health care plans being offered by presumptive presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain.
September 2008 School Reform News
The September 2008 issue of School Reform News highlights homeschooling, charter schools, and school choice legislative efforts in California.

Education 

Can Vouchers Reform Public Schools?
This Heartland Policy Study by education expert George Clowes addresses concerns about the efficacy of school vouchers that have been raised recently by some school reform advocates. The author distinguishes between "charity vouchers" and universal vouchers and explains why the former are unlikely to cause systemic reform of public schools. However, new data on the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program show that even charity vouchers demonstrate the reforming potential of school choice. Reform advocates shouldn't give up on vouchers, Clowes concludes.
Choice & Education Across the States
Choice & Education Across the States ranks state efforts to increase accountability and improve student achievement with four kinds of school choice: vouchers, charters, tax credits, and public school choice.
Ten Principles of School Choice
This small booklet, the first in a series from The Heartland Institute, provides policymakers and civic and business leaders a highly condensed yet easy-to-read guide to the debate. It presents the 10 most important principles of the school choice movement, explaining each principle in plain yet precise language.
School Reform News
School Reform News is a 20-page monthly newspaper, published 11 times a year, reporting on school reform efforts nationwide.

Its audience includes over 33,000 private school principals, administrators, and teachers; every state and national elected official in the United States; and education journalists, educational choice activists, and Heartland friends and supporters. Current circulation figures stand at approximately 45,000 copies.

Environment 

Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate (pdf)
This is the Policymakers Summary of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), an international coalition of scientists convened to provide an independent examination of the evidence available on the causes and consequences of climate change in the published, peer-reviewed literature - examined without bias and selectivity. It includes many research papers ignored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), plus additional scientific results that became available after the IPCC deadline of May 2006.
Reasearch & Commentary: Ethanol Fuel Use
Environmentalists in recent years have enthusiastically hailed ethanol fuel as a central element in combating what they perceive as a global warming crisis caused by manmade carbon dioxide emissions.
Global Warming Facts
Site sponsored by the Heartland Institute regarding the issue of global warming.
Environment and Climate News
Nuclear power, Clean Water Act, Biotech, and more.

Health Care 

Research & Commentary: Health Savings Account
Health Savings Accounts are a way to provide affordable, flexible, consumer-directed health insurance for a population that has a growing need for quality coverage.
Ten Principles of Health Care Policy
The proper role of government in financing and delivering health care is one of the hottest public policy issues of our time. Some experts call for more regulation and more subsidies, while others call for less. All levels of government in the U.S. are coping with rising spending on health care for their own workforces and rapidly rising spending on programs for the poor and elderly.

This booklet is designed to help state legislators find solutions to health care problems by first identifying their causes and true extent--which often are not as they are reported in newspaper stories or touted by special interest groups--and then by presenting 10 principles that ought to guide reform efforts.
More Choices, Better Health
More Choices, Better Health: Free to Choose Experimental Drugs shows the Food & Drug Administration's lengthy drug approval process causes needless pain and suffering. The booklet presents an alternate solution that would give informed patients and their doctors easier access to experimental drugs.
Health Care News
All Kids, Universal Health Care, SCHIP and more.

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