Libertas Utah Articles

Education Empowerment

Schools Should Be More Efficient

New York City spends $39,304 per student, but only 31% of students are proficient in reading and 26% are proficient in math.

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Housing Crisis

New Study, Same Lesson: Government Stacks Major Costs Onto Home Prices

A new study shows regulation accounts for 26.4% of the price of a new home, or $131,734 nationally.

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Free Market

Alan Greenspan Believed in Free Markets. He Also Ran the Institution That Overrules Them.

Earlier this week, Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, died at the age of 100. 

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Free Market

Portable Benefits Win in Six More States

Tens of millions of Americans now work for themselves rather than for an employer, and their numbers keep climbing. Yet the country’s benefits system was built around the traditional job

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Free Market

Foreign Tourists Are Shocked by America’s Material Abundance

Europeans arriving in America for the World Cup are experiencing culture shock. They are in disbelief over the free refills and portion sizes.

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Justice and Due Process

Supreme Court Narrows Drug-User Gun Ban Enforced in Utah

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the government cannot strip Second Amendment rights based only on drug use.

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