Kevin Dayaratna is the principal statistician, a data scientist, and research fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
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During 2019 and 2020, the nation saw a shocking 30% surge in homicide rates, the most substantial single-year increase in more than a century. This… Read More
EnergyCommentary
In stark contrast to the bucolic vision of harvesting energy from the wind, New Jersey is witnessing harsh political reality. Gov. Phil Murphy has approved… Read More
Health CareCommentary
President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on March 1 offers a unique opportunity to break with past pandemic policies and announce that we… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Even though policy should be based on accurate data, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is failing to accurately justify its guidance that vaccinated… Read More
EconomyCommentary
When President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law three days before Christmas in 2017, he implemented one of the most… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The social cost of carbon is a climate economics construct used to quantify the damages associated with carbon dioxide emissions. The Biden administration wants to… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The “social cost of carbon” is a calculation that the Biden administration is looking to use to justify stringent regulation of carbon dioxide emissions. Missouri… Read More
EnergyCommentary
On his very first day in office, President Joe Biden issued an executive order resurrecting the Obama-era social cost of carbon, intended to quantify the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
A new Heritage Foundation special report analyzes the COVID-19 responses of 10 countries, with varying levels of economic freedom, to better understand which policies might… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Professor Neil Ferguson, who led the COVID-19 modeling team at Imperial College in London, resigned May 5 from his government advisory role after breaking the… Read More
