Month: March 2018

Student Loan Debt – Opinions, Issues, and Solutions

| Zach Swaziek | March 30th, 2018 | In the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, candidate Bernie Sanders ignited a fire in students around the U.S. Most notably, Sanders ran on the platform of making college debt free. While this may be unrealistic in the current political environment, the idea gained a lot of traction and …

Increased Access to Biologics the Next Step in Reducing Healthcare Costs?

| Megan Elmes | March 13th, 2018 | By now it’s clear that healthcare costs in the United States are soaring with no expected reduction coming anytime soon. In 2015, we spent $9,990 per capita on healthcare, more than double the OECD median. To start controlling this spending, there has been a dramatic transition from …

Unions, the Supreme Court, and the Free-Rider Problem

| Ian de Wet | March 4, 2018 | As union membership across the public and private sectors continues to decline in the United States, the Supreme Court recently began hearing arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, a potential landmark case that will determine the fate of public-sector unions. The case centers around Mark Janus, a …