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Jan 26

Three Reasons to Leave Paid Family Leave to Employers and States

This week, on a special edition of Mass Ave, Rachel Greszler, a research fellow in Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis, explains why we should leave paid family leave to employers and states.

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Jan 25

SCOTUS 101: Government Shutdowns, Gins-burned & #GorsuchStyle

This week, Elizabeth and Tiffany talk with Empirical SCOTUS founder Adam Feldman and catch up on the Supreme Court's latest opinions and grants. They also play "Judge or Just Made Up." Can you spot the fake judges?

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Jan 24

Tesla's All-or-Nothing Pay Model for Elon Musk

Heritage expert David Kreutzer joined CNBC's "Power Lunch," to debate Tesla's proposed pay scale for Elon Musk during the next 10 years. "This is a great American story," says Kreutzer. "It's rolling the dice, there's a great chance he gets nothing, but if he preforms he gets a huge pay out." 

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Jan 23

Heritage's Impact in the Trump Administration

"The Trump administration has pursued policies that have hewed remarkably close to the recommendations of a leading conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, which found in a new review that nearly two-thirds of its ideas had been implemented or embraced by the White House over the past year," writes The New York Times in a new exclusive. 

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Jan 21

The Truth About the Shutdown

"Charges that this shutdown is the fault of Republicans, or that Democrats haven’t been part of the negotiations leading to the spending bill they rejected, are not true. Instead what’s obvious is that Democrats methodically engineered a situation where the government could shut down over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program," writes Heritage's Thomas Binion in The Hill. 

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Jan 18

SCOTUS 101: Mark Cuban, Scalianess, and the Sweet Mystery of Life

This week, Elizabeth and Tiffany talk about recent oral arguments (spoiler alert: no blockbusters) and a study measuring the "Scalianess" of appellate judges. They also interview SCOTUS litigator Willy Jay. In honor of the March for Life, they play Supreme Trivia - Sweet Mystery of Life edition.

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