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Issues Forum: Jeb Bush

Budget

Budget

Campaign Malarkey Knows No Bounds

February 3, 2016

Presidential campaigns are a free-for-all when it comes to platitudes, promises, and pronouncements. Candidates and their supporters – in some cases, the White House – say what they need to say to garner votes, seemingly without considering the rigor or the implication of their arguments. Presidential hopefuls tend to focus on the state of the […]

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Advisor Veronique de Rugy

Advisor Veronique de Rugy - LPA Foundation Policy Advisor

Bush Education Plan Gets K-12 Reform Right, but Higher Ed Needs a Redo

January 29, 2016

Last week, former governor of Florida Jeb Bush released his plan for reforming education. The plan, called “Restoring the Right to Rise Through a Quality Education,” rightly assesses that K-12 education is failing students and “higher education has become too expensive for many Americans to afford.” Take K-12 education. During the last 40 years, the […]

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Advisor Veronique de Rugy

Advisor Veronique de Rugy - LPA Foundation Policy Advisor

Bush Social Security Reform Is No More Than Acceptable, But Still Best of the Lot

January 27, 2016

A few days ago, we got the news that for the first time ever, government spending on retirement benefits won’t be the biggest ticket item in the federal budget. According to a new Congressional Budget Office report, in 2015 spending on Social Security was displaced from its first-place position by spending on health care programs, […]

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Advisor Sally Pipes

Advisor Sally Pipes

New Bush Education Plan Tries to Overcome Past Common Core Support

January 22, 2016

On Monday former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush unveiled his plan for reforming America’s education system. There is a lot to like in his proposal, which is good, because he has much to atone for given his past support of Common Core. His proposal to create education savings accounts by consolidating the various and disjointed federal […]

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Education

Education

Bush’s Higher Ed Plan Is a Great Start

January 21, 2016

This week, Republican presidential candidate and former Florida governor Jeb Bush released his plan to reform higher-education finance. It is a welcome and serious departure from the “free college” proposals of President Obama and Bernie Sanders. The plan has received praise by analysts ranging from those at the Brookings Institution to those at National Review. […]

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