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Government’s Getting Us Where it Wants Us — Eating Out of Its Hand

Post author:Grassroots in Nebraska (GiN)
Post published:January 31, 2013
Post category:Education Federal Nebraska Network Archives

About the time I began homeschooling my two sons 12 years ago, there was a spoof of a “news” story circulating around the internet on homeschool discussion boards. The fake newspaper article was a send-up of every argument leveled against homeschooling by teachers’ unions and other advocates for public education who insisted homeschooling needed to… more

NE Think Tank Has a Lot In Common With Pelosi

Post author:Grassroots in Nebraska (GiN)
Post published:September 2, 2010
Post category:Economy Education Nebraska Network Archives

On August 27th, the Platte Institute for Economic Research (Platte) sent out an email newsletter with a feature article entitled "The Economic Benefits of SNAP" in Nebraska. In 1996, Democrats and Republicans recognized welfare programs do nothing more than create cycles of dependency. The result was across the board welfare reform. Programs like SNAP are on the march to reversing those reforms.