Blog

For U.S.

This month, Nevada’s governor signed the nation’s first universal school choice program into law. This program will dramatically expand educational choice for all families, including the thousands of Hispanic families living in Nevada who, starting next year, will have the opportunity to send their children to better performing schools regardless of their zip code. Nevada’s universal school choice enactment comes at a time when Florida and Texas, two states with a large share of Hispanic students in the k-12 system, recently failed to expand educational choice.

President Obama is struggling to rally his own party and continues to show weak leadership, as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other Democratic lawmakers defeated a plan to provide transitional assistance to workers displaced by trade, bringing down legislation to grant Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) to the White House.  The TPA bill, the “Bipartisan Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015,” would enable the President to negotiate the conditions of the Tran

The fate of greater Education al choice in the sunshine state hangs in the balance as both chambers of the Florida legislatures unexpectedly adjourned early this week over disagreements on Medicaid and Budget issues befo

With a little over forty days left in the Texas 84th legislative session, the House and Senate are in full swing. There are many pieces of legislation this session that are drawing a lot of national attention to Austin – but perhaps none more so than the bills regarding school choice.  In what represents a historical move for a state that has yet to fully embrace most forms of school choice, last Monday the Texas Senate debated and voted in favor of Senate Bill 4, a tax-credit scholarship program for low income students.

In June of this year, the Export-Import Bank of the United States is slated to expire unless Congress votes to reauthorize it.  The bank, commonly known as Ex-Im, is a New Deal era government-owned financial institution that gives Credit , insurance, and loans – guaranteed by American tax dollars – to foreign companies in order to promote U.S. exports. 

Home prices across the U.S. aren’t climbing nearly as rapidly as even just a year ago, which would lead one to assume that the goal of homeownership – considered by many to be an essential part of the American Dream — could be within reach for a larger segment of the population.  However, as recently highlighted, Hispanics in the U.S.