Insights & Takeaways
Insights & Takeaways is Sutherland Institute’s official blog that informs the public and policymakers alike. The blog addresses important issues through the two distinct yet complementary lenses of the seasoned policy professional and the engaged citizen.
Insights: analysis, research, and informed commentary from Sutherland experts. For elected officials and public policy professionals.
Takeaways: the most important things voters need to know. For civically engaged citizens.
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Special-needs tax credit scholarship closer to becoming law
Read More: Special-needs tax credit scholarship closer to becoming lawThe tax credit scholarship would allow students with an individualized education program (IEP) the opportunity to purchase a range of educational options like private tutoring, school tuition, special needs therapies…
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Religious Freedom 101: Establishing the aspiration of religious freedom in the United States
Read More: Religious Freedom 101: Establishing the aspiration of religious freedom in the United StatesReligious freedom has been a national aspiration from before the country was founded. Yet, just like the nation’s aspirations for racial equality and gender equality, our nation’s history shows uneven…
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Religious groups’ brief explains why government shouldn’t be able to circumvent protections
Read More: Religious groups’ brief explains why government shouldn’t be able to circumvent protectionsThe government must carefully limit the scope of its regulation so that it advances that overwhelming interest without unnecessarily limiting valid exercises of the fundamental right.
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Students, teachers eager to tackle issues of history, Constitution
Read More: Students, teachers eager to tackle issues of history, ConstitutionBoth the desire to wrestle with tough issues (rather than settle further into a particular bias) and to freely disagree with their peers is a good sign for U.S. history…
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Can Muslim man be forced to act as informant? Or does it abuse his religious freedom?
Read More: Can Muslim man be forced to act as informant? Or does it abuse his religious freedom?Religious freedom is not a narrow, partisan issue. Potential threats to this freedom come from many different administrations and cut across religious affiliations.
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Is free market medical care the only option?
Read More: Is free market medical care the only option?The failure of significant healthcare policy reforms at both national and state levels suggests that these market-based policy reforms also require more time to become politically possible.
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Utah Legislature grapples with civics education
Read More: Utah Legislature grapples with civics educationRather than civics education funneling people into a type of shallow activism, robust civics comes from a common understanding of and personal connection to our history as Americans.
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SCOTUS cases point to religious freedom issues that Congress should help decide
Read More: SCOTUS cases point to religious freedom issues that Congress should help decideCongress must play a larger role in protecting religious freedom while balancing the interests of others. This branch of government is better suited for balancing various interests than the Supreme…
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Sutherland Institute supports Special Needs Scholarship Amendments
Read More: Sutherland Institute supports Special Needs Scholarship AmendmentsEducation is about helping each individual student reach their unique God-given potential, whatever path it takes to achieve that.
