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Wyoming Policy Review

The Wyoming Policy Review is the Wyoming Liberty Group’s flagship publication, featuring original articles on law, economics and public policy in Wyoming. The Wyoming Policy Review offers innovative solutions guided by founding principles and thorough research.

Wyoming Policy Review, issue 108 (August 2020)

Special Needs Students

by Staff Writter

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Wyoming Policy Review, issue 107 (July 2020)

Wyoming Voter Identification Reform

by Benjamin Barr

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Wyoming Policy Review, issue 106 (Oct 2019)

Wyoming’s Special Education Funding Issues

by Evan Blauser

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Wyoming Policy Review, issue 105 (May 2019)

The Austrian Business Cycle and the Wyoming Economy

by Austin Hein

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Wyoming Policy Review, issue 104 (April 2019)

All Kids Deserve to Thrive: Making the Case for Education Choice Access in Wyoming

by Cassie Craven

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Wyoming Policy Review, issue 103 (February 2019)

Three Problems with Medicaid Expansion and how to avoid them

by Evan Blauser

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Wyoming Policy Review, issue 102 (November 2017)

Cleaning the Fishbowl

by Cassie Craven

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Wyoming Policy Review, issue 101 (June 2017)

Reforming Medicaid to Serve Wyoming Better

by Chris Jacobs

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The Structured Exit

Limited Government in Wyoming

Part 1: Estimating the Structural Deficit in Wyoming

There are two types of budget deficits: cyclical and structural. Policy measures aimed at eliminating a deficit must be tuned to the type of deficit they are applied to. This paper, the first in a series of four, suggests a method for determining whether or not Wyoming is faced with a structural or cyclical deficit. Subsequent papers will propose appropriate policies to eliminate the deficit. Read More (PDF)

Part 2: Privatizing the University of Wyoming

Budget deficits are as old as government but did not become a topic relevant to economists until tIn a speech in 2000 at Erfurt University in Germany, then Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, Robert Berdahl, explained how both America and Germany have benefited from a long tradition of private higher education. Read More (PDF)

Part 3: Independence from Federal Aid to States

One of the biggest obstacles to a structural reduction of state government spending is the role that federal money plays in state budgets.
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Wyoming Policy Papers

Global Warming's Judgment Day Arrives

Global Warming’s Judgment Day Arrives is an article published in 2009 and reprinted with permission of the author. It discusses trends that in 2014 have become even more obvious: global warming has stalled for the past 17 years, there is no consensus, and warming is much preferred to cooling when it comes to human survival on this earth.

Ideology of the Common Core

The Common Core is not meant to produce individuals willing to take initiative and innovate in the model of our successes over more than 200 years. Instead, it is designed to produce a graduate who is more willing to fit into a collectivist model. It teaches a heavily revisionist history in which America’s past consists of almost nothing but slavery, segregation, and other forms of racial oppression. These distortions impede the maintenance of a free and democratic America.

State Leviathan to Consume Children's Private Information

If our legislature is to ensure an education appropriate for every child in Wyoming it must, first, deregulate to free the private and public initiatives that create educational options; second, put funding allocation choices into the hands of parents via backpacking of opportunity scholarships; and third, defend local control from state and national bribes such as those described here.

Restoring Excellence to Education

In this paper Amy Edmonds tells how policies such as those found in the Common Core Standards [Common Core] have been promoted historically and here in Wyoming. She reminds us that centralized micromanagement fails to increase scores on achievement tests. Further, she calls to mind the simple truth that letting good teachers do their jobs increases academic growth.

Reforming Medicaid to Serve Wyoming Better

In the past several years, Wyoming has accomplished several key changes to its Medicaid program. A series of reforms regarding long-term care, and other methods to improve care delivery and coordination, have stabilized the overall spending on Medicaid—and reduced expenditures on a per-beneficiary basis.

Cleaning the Fishbowl

There is a well-adopted premise in Wyoming case law that, “State agencies must act in a fishbowl.” This enables transparency when governmental officials and public figures are completing work on behalf of their constituents. It also lends credence to the moral belief that the means do not necessarily justify the end.

Criminal Law in Wyoming: An Analysis of Possible Reforms

Wyoming criminal laws are broad, sometimes unnecessary, and sporadically placed across seven separate titles. Many criminal laws are buried deep within regulatory titles that are nearly 1,000 pages in length. A comparative analysis of Wyoming laws reveals that the sentences frequently do not build upon one another but are rather incongruous when standing alongside all Wyoming provisions.

Liberty Brief Archives

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