Support for a choice policy that would allow families to direct a portion of the education dollars already allocated by the state for their child toward a variety of educational…
Ultimately, the Legislature “blinked”…at least for now.
As of this year, North Dakota is now the 47th state to allow public charter schools. To support charter school founders and other charter school innovators committed to building out…
The White House announced a “crime emergency” today in Washington, D.C. and laid out a plan “to protect public servants, citizens, and tourists, and ensure the safe functioning of the Federal…
In the early morning hours of Sunday August 3rd, Fargo experienced its first homicide in nearly 9 months.
All states, including North Dakota, get a substantial amount of funding from the federal government. Yet as the federal government battles worsening fiscal woes, particularly growing national debt, this reliance on…
Don’t be misled by all the talk of “cuts.” There are none-only limits on the amount of increased taxation and the spending which results.
Despite being pigeonholed as a “voucher” or a “diversion” of funds from public schools, the recently passed federal tax-credit scholarship provision created under the Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA)…
Last week, we took a close look at the components of human capital — employment, average annual hours worked, the skills each worker has arising from education, and those he…
This week, we have been looking at the growth — or otherwise — of human capital in North Dakota in the last few years in an attempt to understand why…
Over the last couple of days we have looked at the growth — or otherwise — of human capital in North Dakota in the last few years in an attempt…
A new report released today from American Experiment North Dakota shows the state’s economic growth has slowed down since 2014 after a period of rapid growth that began in 2009, but that…
Back in May, when the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced that “Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the first quarter of 2025 (January,…
Performance Yesterday, we saw that the average annual growth rate of North Dakota’s employment ratio went from being the seventh best ranked in 2008-2014 to 49th in 2014-2023. Changes in…
A coalition of left-wing groups discovered long ago that they could not elect the people they’d like, nor get their preferred policies into law because North Dakotans were too smart…
Yesterday, we looked at North Dakota’ erratic performance in per capita GDP over the last few years. We noted that, using a technique called “growth accounting,” we could break this…