Our policy research function is manifested in policy papers stressing that government in Pennsylvania - and government leaders in the Commonwealth - should focus on accountability, efficiency, and responsibility in providing government services and in public service.
Our 30 minute television production is seen on cable channels across the Commonwealth. The program provides insights into current events affecting Pennsylvanians, such as the economy, health care, taxes, the environment, schools, and how taxpayer money is being spent.
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The Susquehanna Valley Center for Public Policy's Mission
The Susquehanna Valley Center for Public Policy is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit public policy research organization that stresses that government in Pennsylvania - and government leaders in the Commonwealth - should focus on accountability, efficiency, and responsibility in providing government services and in public service. The Center places special emphasis on free market principles, the role of servanthood, and the responsibilities of citizenship that form the foundation of our political structure.
Recent Additions to our Policy Papers
The Civic Education America Needs
All countries seek to inculcate their youth with values that reflect and enhance their national culture—sometimes with horrific results, such as the goose-stepping Hitler Youth or head-nodding madrassas in the Middle East. America used to welcome the contest of ideas against such closed autocracies—fighting not with their forced demonstrations and coerced sloganeering, but by teaching […]
Election 2012: American Exceptionalism
Is America exceptional and perhaps even divinely ordained for peculiar purposes? Across four centuries, many Americans across the political spectrum have thought so. In the last decade, many on the Left have denounced this notion for supposedly fueling America’s aggressive War on Terror. Conservative author and King’s College President Dinesh D’Souza debated American Exceptionalism with […]
State Lawmakers Need to Let Job Creators Know What’s On Tap
In an interview that was published in the Harrisburg Sunday Patriot-News on October 7, 2012, Pennsylvania’s leading brewmaster Dick Yuengling, Jr.,President of D.G. Yuengling & Son, -America’s oldest brewery – (headquartered in Pottsville, PA) said that due to tremendous growth of his company and demand for his products he will have to build another brewery, […]