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Shut Down Indefinitely: The Big Board v. District of Columbia
When DC Mayor Muriel Bowser mandated that bars and restaurants check the vaccination status of all patrons and deny service to those unvaccinated, Eric Flannery, owner of The Big Board in Washington, DC, took a stand. He simply tweeted, “everyone is welcome” refusing to discriminate against his customers. In response, the city shut him down indefinitely. Robert Alt, CEO of The Buckeye Institute, is representing Eric in a David v. Goliath legal battle to let Eric once again, serve the community that he loves. To learn more about Eric’s case and stay up to date on the latest developments, visit The Buckeye Institute: https://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/DCCovidMandateCase

Access to Health Care Made Easier: Promoting Best Practices in Ohio’s Telehealth Policy
“[P]olicymakers should allow telehealth services and technologies to grow and mature, allowing all stakeholders to discover where they work best…and how to maximize their value to patients,” as Buckeye’s telehealth policy report shows: https://bit.ly/2FM3llr.

Common-Sense Reforms in Senate Bill 3 will Reduce Costs and Save Lives

Sustaining Economic Growth: Tax and Budget Principles for Ohio

Workers Choose: Jonathan Reisman’s Story
Jonathan Reisman, is associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Maine at Machias who served as the Associated Faculties of the Universities of Maine’s (AFUM) grievance officer for the Machias campus. As an educator and economics professor, Professor Reisman has well-formed views and opinions—some more strongly held than others—on a wide range of economic and social policies, including, for instance, taxes, wage and price controls, and education. On many of these issues, he does not share the opinions of the state and national unions with which AFUM affiliates—the Maine Education Association and the National Education Association. Learn more at www.WorkersChoose.org.

Workers Choose: Jade Thompson's Story
Jade Thompson is a Spanish teacher in Ohio. Her union—the Marietta Education Association (MEA)—bargains for numerous policies with which she disagrees, including advocating for positions that resulted in cutting academic programs rather than allowing a reduction in fringe benefits, negotiating the exclusion of teachers who are not union members from key committees, and requiring seniority to be the sole substantive criteria in layoffs to the exclusion of any merit factors, leading to the absurd result that any ties in seniority must be resolved via coin-flip, even if the tie is between a teacher-of-the-year and a low-performing teacher. Read more about Jade’s case at: http://bit.ly/2naAEBL, and learn more at www.WorkersChoose.org.

Workers Choose: Kathy Uradnik's Story
Kathy Uradnik is a professor of political science at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Her union—the Inter Faculty Organization (IFO)—created a system that discriminates against non-union faculty members by barring them from serving on any faculty search, service, or governance committee, and even bars them from joining the Faculty Senate. This second-class treatment of non-union faculty members impairs their ability to obtain tenure, to advance in their careers, and to participate in the academic life and governance of their institutions. Read more about Kathy's case at: http://bit.ly/2naAEBL, and learn more at www.WorkersChoose.org.

Worker Voting Rights: Giving a Voice and Choice to Union Members
94% of union members have never had the right to vote for their union representation, but there’s a fix – Worker Voting Rights! Check out how it works and let us know if you think union members deserve to have a vote on their representation.

How Education Savings Accounts are Helping Families in Mississ...
Our latest report is out, Education Savings Accounts: Expanding Education Options for Ohio. Read more about ESAs here: http://bit.ly/2rFOCQ5. Read the full report here: http://bit.ly/2seGFP5. Watch the video below to see how ESAs are helping families in Mississippi.

How Education Savings Accounts are Helping Families in Florida
Our latest report is out, Education Savings Accounts: Expanding Education Options for Ohio. Read more about ESAs here: http://bit.ly/2rFOCQ5. Read the full report here: http://bit.ly/2seGFP5. Watch the video below to see how ESAs are helping families in Florida.

How Education Savings Accounts are Helping Families in Arizona
Our latest report is out, Education Savings Accounts: Expanding Education Options for Ohio. Read more about ESAs here: http://bit.ly/2rFOCQ5. Read the full report here: http://bit.ly/2seGFP5. Watch the video below to see how ESAs are helping families in Arizona.

What is an Education Savings Account?
Our latest report is out, Education Savings Accounts: Expanding Education Options for Ohio. Read more about ESAs here: http://bit.ly/2rFOCQ5 or check out the video below. Read the full report here: http://bit.ly/2seGFP5. Thanks to Greg Lawson and Lindsey Burke for all their great work.

Smart Justice: All Star Panel Discusses the Need for Criminal ...
If you weren’t able to join us and US Justice Action Network on May 3 checkout the video of our conversation on #CJReform with Maurice Clarett and Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Director Gary Mohr.

The Buckeye Institute Introduction
Founded in 1989, The Buckeye Institute is an independent research and educational institution—a think tank—whose mission is to advance free-market public policy in the states. Learn More: http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/

Luke Hanks, president of Salon Schools Group, asked Ohio legislators to preserve the state's ridiculous hair salon “manager's license” requiring 300 hours of training — sold by his school. Something Hanks didn't tell legislators: 66 percent of students at his Canal Winchester cosmetology school aren’t repaying the federal student loans taken out to help pay his school’s staggering $19,400 tuition. In other words, nearly two-thirds of students haven't repaid a single dollar of the money borrowed from the federal government to attend the Ohio State School of Cosmetology in Canal Winchester. The real issue is why we’re placing this financial burden on and denying opportunity to low-income Ohioans. It’s not whether store managers should be licensed. Obviously not. Ohio requires too much training — 1,500 hours — to become a licensed cosmetologist. Our vocational schools do the job as well, if not better, in 1,125 hours for high school students, at a fraction of the cost. The hair salon “manager’s license” isn’t about safety or competence. It’s a way to add 300 school hours so that private cosmetology schools can reach the magical number of 1,800 “clock hours” — precisely the number needed to squeeze every last penny out of federal student aid programs. These 300 hours generate an extra $1,925 in federal money per student. One hour less would leave money on the table; one hour more wouldn’t harvest more money. The average Ohio cosmetologist makes $12.16 an hour, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Beginning stylists make less, often minimum wage. It is unconscionable for Ohio to make hair stylists — 95 percent of whom are women, many of them single moms — pay tithes to cosmetology school owners for the right to get a $3-an-hour raise and a promotion at some Great Clips in a shopping center. Is it really surprising that a single mother earning $12 an hour can’t repay a $10,000 student loan? The question we should be asking is what can be done to help