Cascade Policy Institute

Cascade's principal programs include: (1) Policy research that focuses on: educational choice, K-12 education finance, state-level fiscal issues, state and local regulations, public pension reform, workplace freedom (right to work), transportation/public transit, land use planning, free-market environmentalism, electric grid reliability, homelessness, and health care. (2) Children's Scholarship Fund-Oregon which provides privately funded K-8 scholarships to low-income Oregon students; (3) Summer internship program - A highly competitive program that provides upper division college students and graduate students with an intensive learning opportunity researching, analyzing, and writing about current public policy issues; (4) Speakers Bureau; (5) Lecture series.