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Boston Uni.’s Dr. Charles Glenn on School Choice, Civil Rights, & EspinozaJuly 10, 2020 - 10:21 am
COVID-19 Roundup from Pioneer: COVID & Air Conditioning; NEW: PPP Loan Tracker; COVID Nursing Home Task Force; Hubwonk: Fixing Foster Care; UMass’ Unique Re-opening Plans & more!July 7, 2020 - 2:40 pm
PPP Loan TrackerJuly 7, 2020 - 11:47 am
One UMass System, Different Reopening PlansJuly 7, 2020 - 11:40 am
Foster Family Fixes: Serving Our Most Vulnerable Children with Foster Care ReformJuly 7, 2020 - 10:39 am
Brown Uni.’s Pulitzer-Winning Prof. Gordon Wood on American Independence & the Founding FathersJuly 3, 2020 - 7:52 am
Lead Plaintiff Kendra Espinoza & IJ’s Attorney Erica Smith on Landmark SCOTUS School Choice DecisionJuly 1, 2020 - 11:41 am
Public Statement: Pioneer Institute Applauds U.S. Supreme Court Ruling in Espinoza School Choice CaseJune 30, 2020 - 10:38 am
Hubwonk Ep. 12: Direct Primary Care: Restoring the Connection between Doctors and PatientsJune 30, 2020 - 9:27 am
Bringing Back Youth Soccer Amidst COVID-19June 29, 2020 - 10:42 am
PPP Loan Tracker
/0 Comments/in COVID, COVID Economy, COVID Transparency, Economic Opportunity, Featured /by Editorial StaffTo advance transparency regarding public funds, Pioneer Institute developed this Paycheck Protection Plan Loan Tracker. This web tool allows you to track PPP loans by recipient, lender, location, industry, and loan range. According to this data, from the Small Business Administration, 18,177 Massachusetts small businesses received PPP loans, which the companies claim retained 738,613 jobs.
One UMass System, Different Reopening Plans
/0 Comments/in Blog: Higher Education, COVID Economy, COVID Education, News /by Nina WeissOne UMass System, Different Reopening Plans On March 11, UMass President Marty Meehan made the decision to shift all five UMass campuses to online instruction for the remainder of the semester. This decision was echoed by many other universities across Massachusetts and the nation in response to the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic. As the four UMass campuses that serve undergraduates continue finalizing their plans for the fall and beyond, it seems that the system is permitting each school’s local landscape to factor into campus reopening plans. This is an encouraging sign. Given that UMass-Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, and Lowell are all unique campuses, they need not chart the same path. Table 1 demonstrates that the areas surrounding UMass undergraduate campuses […]
Foster Family Fixes: Serving Our Most Vulnerable Children with Foster Care Reform
/0 Comments/in COVID Health, COVID Podcasts, Featured, Healthcare, News, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffJoin Joe Selvaggi and Pioneer Senior Healthcare Fellow Josh Archambault as they discuss specific reforms that could improve the current foster care system. Josh shares findings from his recent research, as well as his experiences as a foster parent himself.
Brown Uni.’s Pulitzer-Winning Prof. Gordon Wood on American Independence & the Founding Fathers
/0 Comments/in Featured, Podcast, US History /by Editorial StaffThis week on “The Learning Curve,” Cara and Gerard are joined by Gordon Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution.
Lead Plaintiff Kendra Espinoza & IJ’s Attorney Erica Smith on Landmark SCOTUS School Choice Decision
/0 Comments/in Featured, Podcast, School Choice /by Editorial StaffThis week, in a special segment of “The Learning Curve,” Cara and Gerard are honored to be joined by Kendra Espinoza, lead plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, just decided yesterday, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, and Erica Smith, an attorney with the Institute for Justice, which represented the plaintiffs.