CELEBRATING 80 YEARS OF LIBERTY
In 1946, Leonard E. Read established the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) as the original free market education organization in the U.S.
Eighty years later, the mission remains the same: to inspire, educate, and connect future leaders with the economic, ethical, and legal principles of a free society.
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FEE recently held our second-annual essay competition in cooperation with the Bagwell Center at Kennesaw State University. The contest was open to any student at KSU, and their prompt was related to the work of the Bagwell Center’s visiting fellow, Grover Norquist, and the Taxpayer Protection Pledge that his organization, Americans for Tax Reform, asks […]
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