The FREOPP.org Substack

Overcoming polarization to make progress

Plus: The real cost of New York’s All Electric Buildings Act; fulfilling the promise of the Individuals with Disabilities Act; and how to move the U.S…

Dec 27, 2025 • FREOPP Highlights

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November 2025

The challenge of rural poverty

Plus: An opportunity for much-needed Obamacare reform; what Mamdani as mayor means for poor New Yorkers; and Mississippi shows a path toward education…

Nov 29, 2025 • FREOPP Highlights

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October 2025

Ways to give foster children a brighter future

Plus: Reforming health care and ending the government shutdown; new national statistics on immigration; and join us in D.C. at Freedom & Progress 2025

Oct 25, 2025 • FREOPP Highlights

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September 2025

A legislative blueprint for prescription drug reform

Plus: Lessons learned about the homeless mentally ill; what we know from the August jobs report; and why zoning reform alone won’t lower housing costs

Sep 27, 2025 • FREOPP Highlights

August 2025

America’s debt endgame

Plus: A quiet revolution in education policy; the tax reform with an outsize influence on growth; and legal immigration in the workplace

Aug 30, 2025 • FREOPP Highlights

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July 2025

Do 30-year mortgages support the American Dream–or undermine it?

Plus: New York changes course on nuclear power; improving Medicare price negotiation; and the need for a coherent federal approach to K-12 education

Jul 26, 2025 • FREOPP Highlights

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June 2025

Does marriage reduce poverty?

Plus: Should Boomers rent out their empty rooms; will generative AI leave low-income workers behind; and how to fix a wasteful health care subsidy

Jun 28, 2025 • FREOPP Highlights

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May 2025

Americans pay 4x more for medicine—do we have to?

Plus: Assessing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on wages and social mobility; and how Congress and states can give parents more educational choice

May 31, 2025 • FREOPP Highlights

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April 2025

Tariffs won’t help poor Americans

Plus: How the Fed could ease market volatility; Utah sets the standard for welfare policy; lowering drug costs by clearing “patent thickets;” and FREOPP…

Apr 26, 2025 • FREOPP Highlights

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February 2025

How to lead the world in health care innovation

Plus: Why NIH funding caps could mean more money for research; and reform proposals to benefit low-income taxpayers

Feb 22, 2025 • FREOPP Highlights

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January 2025

States can fight degree inflation (and they should)

Plus: Making outcomes-based funding work in higher ed; how school choice fared at the ballot box; and ways that DOGE can improve the U.S. welfare system

Jan 25, 2025 • FREOPP Highlights

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December 2024

Reviewing 2024 in inflation, housing, and health care

Plus: Has religious diversity weakened America?

Dec 28, 2024 • FREOPP Highlights

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