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Award-Winner Nathaniel Philbrick on the Mayflower and the First Thanksgiving
/in Featured, News, Podcast, US History /by Editorial StaffThis week on “The Learning Curve,” Cara and Gerard talk with Nathaniel Philbrick, historian, winner of the National Book Award, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and author of Mayflower: Voyage, Community, and War. Mr. Philbrick shares what we should know about the actual historical events of the First Thanksgiving in 1621.
Josh Bedi on How Immigrants Boost Native Entrepreneurship
/in Economic Opportunity, Featured, JobMakers /by Editorial StaffThis week on JobMakers, host Denzil Mohammed talks with Dr. Joshua Bedi, child of an immigrant and postdoctoral researcher in entrepreneurship in the Department of Strategy and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He is the son of an immigrant who relocated from India to Jackson, Mississippi, and started a business. It was a simple neighborhood gas station, but also a symbol of what hardworking immigrants can do to boost innovation and business generation in host countries, as you’ll learn in this week’s JobMakers podcast.
Survey Finds Spotty Compliance Among Hospitals with Federal Price Transparency Law
/in Featured, Healthcare, Press Releases, Press Releases: Health Care, Press Releases: Healthcare Transparency /by Editorial StaffA 2019 federal law requires hospitals to make prices for 300 shoppable services available online in a “consumer-friendly format,” but a Pioneer Institute survey of 19 hospitals finds that information on discounted cash prices—the price most likely to be charged to consumers paying out of pocket—was unavailable at seven of those hospitals.
Georgia’s Alisha Thomas Searcy on School Choice, Teacher Unions, & Elections
/in Featured, Podcast, School Choice /by Editorial StaffThis week on “The Learning Curve,” Cara and Gerard talk with Alisha Thomas Searcy, the Democratic nominee for Georgia state school superintendent. She shares her experience as a former six-term state legislator and school leader; her recent bid for Georgia’s top education post; and her passion for K-12 education reform.
Legal Property Theft: Legal Defense Against Town Taxman Taking Neediests’ Deeds
/in Featured, News, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffThis week on Hubwonk, host Joe Selvaggi talks with President of PioneerLegal and retired federal judge, Hon. Frank J. Bailey, about PioneelLegal’s work to advocate for the U.S. constitutional prohibition against the practice of municipalities taking an the entire value of a property to settle a relatively small tax debt, a procedure legal in Massachusetts and thirteen other states.