Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives
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The Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-profit research and educational institute based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The foundation develops and advances public policies based on the nation’s founding principles of limited constitutional government, economic freedom, and personal responsibility for one’s actions.
The Commonwealth Foundation’s research and educational efforts are firmly established on several core values that form the basis of a “civil society.” The activities of the Foundation are therefore committed to:
- Respecting and protecting the lives and property of others.
- Recognizing the inseparability of personal and economic freedom.
- Upholding personal responsibility and accountability for one’s actions.
- Challenging the general perception that government intervention is the most appropriate most efficient means of solving societal problems.
- Demonstrating the power of private institutions—both for-profit and non-profit—to create a good and civil society.
- Promoting the use of economic reasoning to understand a world of scarcity, trade-offs, and the unseen consequences of governmental solutions to societal problems.
The Commonwealth Foundation is also the sponsor of THE BOX: Inside • Outside • On, a weekly, talk-radio program.
