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The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) is a non-profit think tank focused on expanding economic opportunity to those who least have it.

06/19/2026

The belief that every person deserves to live freely and with dignity is at the heart of America's founding. Juneteenth marks a hard-won step toward making that promise real for every American.

Republicans actually do have a healthcare plan, and it’s a good one 06/19/2026

As the midterms approach, Americans have made affordability its top concern. Nowhere is this concern more urgent than in health care.

FREOPP's Gregg Girvan writes: Congressman Bruce Westerman's Fair Care Act is the reform patients have been looking for.

Republicans actually do have a healthcare plan, and it’s a good one Republicans have an opportunity to tell a different story than the one Americans have believed about them.

06/18/2026

Renters and homebuyers pay more for housing because zoning insists upon inefficient land use.

FREOPP's Luca Gattoni-Celli maps the costliest requirements impacting low-income families 👇
https://freopp.org/whitepapers/the-u-s-housing-shortage-and-how-zoning-building-codes-and-permitting-created-it/

Download FREOPP's new one-page breakdown of the regulations keeping housing scarce and the reforms that would help 👇https://freopp.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/HousingPrimer_1Pager_FREOPP.pdf

06/18/2026

Too many Americans are stuck with health care coverage chosen by their employer, not by them.

Congressman Bruce Westerman's Fair Care Act would give more than 100 million Americans the freedom to choose insurance plans that fit their needs. See how: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5927853-affordable-health-coverage-fair-care/

06/18/2026

The debate over health care has long been framed as either a government takeover or the status quo.

The Fair Care Act is neither. It's a market-oriented path to near-universal coverage built around portable tax credits, price transparency, and patients in the driver's seat.

06/17/2026

The federal government cannot mandate its way to a flourishing care economy.

FREOPP's Aparna Mathur explains how the Trump administration's philosophical course correction on child care policy will empower states and low-income families.

https://freopp.org/oppblog/president-trumps-child-care-reset-is-a-step-toward-family-centered-reform/

06/16/2026

The best policy ideas don't enact themselves. FREOPP's Josh Bandoch is keynoting at the SPN Social Welfare Working Group this week to share how persuasion and public policy are connected.

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FREOPP’s Avik Roy took the stage at to make the case that a market-oriented, opportunity-focused conservatism can build a winning coalition.

Everyone in that room showed up ready to do the work 💪

The growing national debt is punishing poor Americans - FREOPP 06/15/2026

Low-income families pay the biggest price for the U.S.'s growing national debt.

Michael Tanner explains how inflation, higher interest rates, and slower economic growth ultimately hit those with the least amount of cushion hardest.

The growing national debt is punishing poor Americans - FREOPP Ultimately, there is no way to reduce budget deficits, and ultimately the debt, without making difficult and likely unpopular choices.

Asking the right questions about child welfare - FREOPP 06/15/2026

Families at risk can't rely on a system that's been asked to do everything, yet ends up doing nothing well.

FREOPP's Tiffany Perrin breaks down why the child welfare system must ask who builds relationships, who enables them, and who should step back.

Asking the right questions about child welfare - FREOPP Stakeholders must understand who is best positioned to lead, where they are best positioned to support, and when they should step back

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