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Pioneer Institute Launches Tracker Showing Drug Price Controls Are Raising Out-of-Pocket Costs for Medicare Patients
/in Featured, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Life Sciences, News, Press Releases: Life Sciences /by Editorial StaffA new data tool from Pioneer Institute reveals that federal drug price controls—intended to reduce out-of-pocket costs for seniors—are instead making many prescription drugs more expensive for Medicare beneficiaries.
Harvard Law’s Amb. Mary Ann Glendon on In the Courts of Three Popes
/in Education, Featured, Learning Curve, News, Podcast /by Editorial StaffIn this episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts U-Arkansas Prof. Albert Cheng and Pioneer’s Mary Connaughton interview Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law professor emerita and former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. Ambassador Glendon reflects on her formative education, mentors, and how law and faith have shaped her worldview. She discusses her admiration for Western Civilization’s intellectual and spiritual heritage—especially Cicero, Edmund Burke, and the harmony of Catholicism with reason.
New Study Cautions: Rent Control Offers Short-Term Relief, But Steep Long-Term Costs
/in Economic Opportunity, Economic Opportunity, Featured, Housing, News, Press Releases: Economic Opportunity /by Editorial StaffA new Pioneer Institute study finds that while rent control can lower rental housing costs and help vulnerable tenants remain in their homes, it also carries steep long-term consequences—including reduced housing quality, lower property values, fewer new housing units, and higher rents for non-controlled apartments.
New Report Warns: Massachusetts Facing Alarming Decline in Private Sector Employment Growth
/in Economic Opportunity, Economic Opportunity, Featured, News /by Editorial StaffWhile nearly every state has expanded private sector employment since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Massachusetts is an outlier in experiencing a net decline in private sector job growth, posing significant risks to the state’s economic health and long-term prosperity, according to a new policy brief published by Pioneer Institute.
Pioneer Institute Testimony Concerning VTE Admissions to the Massachusetts Board of Education
/in Education, Featured, News, Voc Tech Schools /by Editorial StaffPioneer Institute Executive Director Jim Stergios submitted testimony highlighting the success of Massachusetts’ vocational-technical high schools and urging policymakers to focus on expanding capacity rather than altering existing admissions policies.