Fringe benefits for Ohio public workers are more than twice as generous as those paid in the private sector, meaning that when pay and benefits are taken into consideration public workers receive 31.2 percent more in total compensation than private‐sector counterparts.

There exists a good opportunity to achieve savings in Ohio's Medicaid drug program without cutting benefits or quality of care.

In 2009, unnecessary Medicaid spending in Ohio was $21 million--the fourth highest among all states. Nationwide, Medicaid reimbursement for expensive brand-name drugs over alternative generic products cost an estimated $329 million in excessive payments.

Catalyst Ohio interviewed AEI's Frederick M. Hess on his new book and his ideas for encouraging innovation in education.

Here is another good news/bad news column about the 112th Congress.

Join us at AEI for a conversation that will consider what the 2012 elections hold for education against the backdrop of the new book "Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Lessons from a Half-Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America's Schools," edited by AEI's Frederick M. Hess and Andrew P. Kelly.

With just over half of the Republican contests completed, the March edition of AEI’s Political Report takes a close look at the entrance and exit poll results from the 17 states for which data are available.

Hillary Clinton's recent victory in Ohio may prove that she is more electable than Senator Barack Obama.