Why South Carolina Needs Palmetto Promise
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Palmetto Promise Institute works to champion the principles of freedom and opportunity in South Carolina.
Palmetto Promise Institute works to champion the principles of freedom and opportunity in South Carolina.
Dr. Barbara Stock Nielsen, South Carolina’s first Republican Superintendent of Education, shares four key ideas to fix South Carolina’s broken education funding system.
Let’s hope for the sake of our health – and our wallets – that Americans remember Margaret Thatcher’s prescient admonition: 'The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
Tom Anderson Roe Jr. (1927-2000)--Greenville native, Furman graduate, and successful businessman--was the founder of the state-based policy network. 25 years later, he is surely smiling down from heaven on a thriving movement "built for such a time as this."
Transitioning to a defined contribution retirement plan for new state employees would be wise public policy for South Carolina taxpayers and would help us keep our promises to past, present and future state employees.
Will South Carolina leaders learn the lessons of the V.C. Summer nuclear debacle? Or will South Carolina taxpayers continue to foot the bill for "business as usual" in Columbia?
Orangeburg 5 High School for Health Professions is beating the odds to create success for rural students in poverty. This week, Principal Angel Malone shared their secret for success with a Senate panel.
"It does not make either economic or political sense to continue with a regime that in the long term would benefit virtually no one.” That 22-year old prediction about Santee Cooper rings all too true as ratepayers pony up for the V.C. Summer nuclear debacle.
In 2016, Palmetto Promised championed a bill known as Volunteer Care. Today, one Hilton Head clinic demonstrates the enormous benefit that came be gained when South Carolina takes an innovative approach to health care.
Recent studies of our health care system make it clear that a health insurance card isn't a guarantee of good, affordable health care. One PPI staff member shares her first-hand account of this truism.