The Issues

Economic Freedom

65 is the New 25

As Baby Boomers reach their retirement years, the Age Wave is washing over the country. The big push among the G.I. Generation and the Silent Generation was to head south,...

Jefferson Forum
March 27, 2014

The Obamacare of Real Estate

Top Senate Banking Committee members released plans this week to wind down mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and replace them with a complicated apparatus disturbingly similar to Obamacare....

Jefferson Forum
March 27, 2014

Elevated Managed Lanes Might Work Here in Virginia

(Publisher’s note: This article bring all sorts of ideas to mind on where double decking roads might work here in Virginia. Two quick suggestions in Northern Virginia would be Route...

Bob Poole
March 27, 2014

Medicaid Reform – The Virginia Way

Let’s think through this Medicaid expansion issue. First, everyone wants to make sure that those who need health care assistance have access to it as needed, but how to best...

Mike Thompson
March 26, 2014

A Closer Look at the Jobs Numbers

The jobless rate is falling, and that’s good news. But it is declining for the wrong reasons, and that’s not good for a variety of reasons. The rate has fallen...

Christine Chmura
March 13, 2014

America’s (and Virginia’s) Road-Maintenance Deficit

State transportation departments across the country are spending billions of dollars to build new roads and highways even as they fail to maintain the road networks they already have, according...

Jefferson Forum
March 13, 2014

Some Good News on Highways and Bridges

A lot of the push for increased federal transportation funding has been generated over the years by projections from the Federal Highway Administration and two national commissions, based largely on...

Jefferson Forum
March 13, 2014

Obamacare's Impact on Virginia

February, 2014 the non-partisan, independent Congressional Budget Office released a comprehensive analysis of the likely employment impacts that Obamacare will have on the economy over the next several years, and...

Jefferson Forum
February 27, 2014

Proposed Overhaul in Allocation of Transportation Dollars

In September House Speaker William J. Howell, R-Stafford, gave a major policy speech to the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce declaring that money alone cannot solve Virginia’s transportation problems. He called for...

Jefferson Forum
February 13, 2014

Jefferson Forum concentrates on policies that affect everyday life in Virginia

Economic Freedom

Lower taxes and fewer regulations

Education Freedom

More choices for Virginia families

Energy Freedom

Reliable, affordable energy

Worker Freedom

Protecting Virginia’s right-to-work tradition

These are the building blocks of a more competitive and prosperous Virginia.