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NAEP Data Shows Black Charter Students In Large Cities Do Better
The last couple of weeks have been significant for school choice advocates. Late Sunday, the House Budget Committee passed the larger Republican tax bill, including a measure to create the first of its kind nationwide tax credit scholarship program for private school choice. Last week was also National Charter Schools Week, which the White House with a a Presidential Message praising charter school students for “outperforming their peers in math and reading” and noting charter schools’ particularly
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Raising Taxes In A Time of Inflation
Republicans must ensure 2026 isn’t 2018
Could Kamala Harris Have Won? Our Take
How much SALT is enough?
The Latest Look At Education Issue Handling
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Could Kamala Harris Have Won? Our Take
A forthcoming book Original Sin is set to reveal new details about President Biden’s declining condition in the White House. From released excerpts about his short lived re-election campaign, many leading Democrats have concluded that Kamala Harris never stood a chance. Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg penned an op-ed in the American Prospect
Georgia On Republican Minds
Senate Republicans are looking to expand their majority in 2026 with a priority race being the Georgia Senate seat held by Jon Ossoff. Governor Brian Kemp has just passed on running for the Senate, so Republicans will need a candidate who can turn out the base and win a majority
All Eyes On Maine And North Carolina Senate Races
As we approach next year’s midterm elections, Maine and North Carolina are the critical Senate seats for Republicans to hold. Will 2026 be the year that GOP incumbents Susan Collins and Thom Tillis pull it off again? To help answer this question, we are looking at election takeaways from those
Expectations of Automation
As tariffs send shockwaves through the global economy, one of the areas of policy debate is about the future of manufacturing jobs. Tariff advocates want to see those jobs brought back to the US, while many tariff critics say many of those jobs could be automated so the negative impact
How Much Running Room Is There On Tariffs?
In our latest survey for Winning the Issues (April 8-10), we looked at where people were in determining their views about tariffs. As the global markets have been in chaos, have voters already formed conclusions about the efficacy of tariffs, or are they still evaluating? Among the overall electorate, views
Three Things We Are Seeing In Our New Survey Data On Tariffs
Tariffs have rocked the markets this week, and we are nowhere close to a resolution. From our new survey for Winning the Issues (April 8-10), here are three things we are seeing so far: 1. The economic impact is widely felt. One of the rationales of the White House has been that
NAEP Data Shows Black Charter Students In Large Cities Do Better
The last couple of weeks have been significant for school choice advocates. Late Sunday, the House Budget Committee passed the larger Republican tax bill, including a measure to create the first of its kind nationwide tax credit scholarship program for private school choice. Last week was also National Charter Schools
The Latest Look At Education Issue Handling
As an issue, education has taken on an almost entirely new dimension in the last several months, especially in light of DOGE’s cost-cutting efforts that have hit everything from research grants to some of the tests administered as part of the Nation’s Report Card portfolio. Data from the most recent
Will Today’s Valuable Skill Sets Soon Become Obsolete?
Tariffs continue to dominate the headlines sparking concerns about product shortages and recession. One of the arguments made by proponents of tariffs is that they will help return manufacturing jobs to the US. But critics say that many if not most of these jobs are soon to be automated anyway.
Republicans must ensure 2026 isn’t 2018
In today’s Roll Call, the Winston Group’s David Winston writes about how Republicans can make sure that the 2026 midterms aren’t a repeat of 2018. In the upcoming midterm election, Trump and Republicans have a second chance at the ring when it comes to the economy, if … If they
How much SALT is enough?
The Winston Group’s David Winston writes in today’s Roll Call about the debate over the state and local tax deduction, who benefits from it what it means for the overall reconciliation bill. But how many people itemize and take advantage of the SALT deduction that stands in the way of
As the polling wars rage, both parties should stop and listen
In today’s Roll Call, The Winston Group’s David Winston writes about Chuck Schumer and Donald Trump’s recent discounting of polls that are unfavorable to them. Neither Schumer nor Trump have cornered the market when it comes to the business of discounting unfavorable polls. Trashing polls one doesn’t like and ballyhooing