Ursula Hackett

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    This major church-state case makes direct funding of religious organizations more likely

This major church-state case makes direct funding of religious organizations more likely

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The Supreme Court’s latest church-state decision opens the door to direct funding of religious institutions. Ursula Hackett argues that this phase merely accelerates a decades-long trajectory: rapid expansion of voucher programmes that offer public funds for private (including religious) schools, and the increasing irrelevance of state constitutional bans on such aid.

Five years ago a Missouri church was excluded from […]

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    The submerged politics of Obamacare may make it harder to repeal than Trump and the GOP realize

The submerged politics of Obamacare may make it harder to repeal than Trump and the GOP realize

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Next year will see the Republican Party control the presidency, House, and Senate, and they will likely waste little time before beginning to dismantle President Obama’s legacy, including signature programs such as Obamacare. Ursula Hackett argues that Obamacare’s ‘submerged’ delivery, via subsidies for individuals to buy insurance from private markets rather than direct government provision, may mean that the […]

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    The appointment of Betsy DeVos as US Education Secretary is a green light for market forces in education

The appointment of Betsy DeVos as US Education Secretary is a green light for market forces in education

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This week president-elect Donald Trump picked billionaire conservative activist, Betsy DeVos to be his Secretary of Education. Ursula Hackett writes that Trump’s choice shows that he is serious about implementing a radical new program of school vouchers, which would expand the role of the market in the US education system even further. She comments that while Trump’s plan to […]

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