A few years back, universities were touting “green jobs,” to college graduates, implementing environmental regulations but they never materialized. Now Georgetown thinks it has found a new growth industry. “In the ever-changing and complex landscape…
Topic: federal government
Attacking the Federal Government’s Regulatory Beast
Stories surfaced this year to the effect that federal employees would quit if Donald Trump were elected. Unfortunately, that’s not likely to happen. “Most of what we think of as federal law is written by…
Feds Should Stop Pushing College Students into Ruinous Debt
That sounds like a reasonable assertion, right? Why is the federal government pushing America’s future into ruinous student loan debt? This from George Leef: Bad borrowing decisions are almost impossible to escape. Consider the case…
Federal Government Spends Too Much of Your Money
Unlike professors who haven’t read the federal budget, scholars who actually have can’t find any cuts. The Heritage Foundation hosted a panel discussion on how to improve agency performance with fiscal discipline, and two professors…
It’s the Accreditation, Stupid!
The good news is that the Left has noticed what a scam college accreditation is. The bad news: They want the federal government to take it over. “Accreditors are self-regulating membership organizations,” Ben Miller, David…
Plan for the Post-Republic after 2016 Elections, Warns Writer
Angelo Codevilla warns about the post-American republic due to the 2016 election cycle and both parties’ establishments’ actions to get us to this point.
Harvard Study: Government Inhibits Economic Development in America
A Harvard economist was stunned by the results of his study: The political system is hindering economic development in America. This was a key finding in Harvard Business School’s study on competitiveness. Professors, led by Michael…
Do colleges + universities=economic growth?
Academics have been arguing for decades that colleges and universities are engines of economic growth. Now they seem to have scientific proof, or do they? “We estimate fixed effects models at the sub-national level between…
Dept of Ed Releases New Rules on Debt Forgiveness, For-Profit Colleges
For-profit colleges now have more rules to follow, related to debt forgiveness.

The Bestial Patriot Act
In an interview with author Cheryl Chumley after an Author’s Night Event hosted by Accuracy in Academia she discussed the direction of America and what concerned citizens can do to change the future. In her…