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For decades, Rhode Island's political class has proudly embraced the big-government, liberal, progressive approach to governance - high taxes, heavy regulation, dominant public-sector unions, expansive welfare and spending programs, and more government control over everyday activities in our lives.
July 22, 2026

New Report Shows RI’s Big Government Gamble has Failed Residents

Rhode Island's twenty year single-party rule has driven sharp decline. The new “One Score” report details twenty major policy failures in taxes, affordability, education, business climate & more. Read it now.
June 22, 2026

ONE SCORE, Twenty Failures: The High Cost of Rhode Island’s One-Party Rule

Despite common-sense energy reforms suggested by Governor McKee; despite pledged reforms by all other New England states; and despite indisputable research that shows how Rhode Island’s net zero emissions energy strategy will lead to unaffordable costs and dangerous risks … the budget put forth by the new Speaker of the RI House of Representative, Christopher Blazejewski … doubles-down on the state’s radical Act On Climate mandates.
June 4, 2026

Un-Affordability: Speaker Blazejewski’s Budget Denies Science, Will Raise Energy Costs for Ocean Staters … but Center Claims One Major Victory

Rhode Island students deserve better. The federal Education Freedom Tax Credit (EFTC) empowers working and middle-class families with scholarships for K-12 private schools, charters, homeschooling, tutoring & more at zero cost to RI taxpayers or public schools. The governor can opt-in today for January 2027 launch. Give Ocean State families real choice and brighter futures. Don’t leave millions in education funding on the table.
May 18, 2026

Unleashing Hope via K–12 Scholarships for Families: Why Rhode Island Should Opt-In to Federal Education Tax Credits

January 27, 2026

MEDIA RELEASE: Center Launches Petition Calling for Affordable Energy Policies

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The  mission of the Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity is to drive social change, in the form of pro-family, pro-business reform policies – advanced via coalition and public outreach; to keep families home and together in our state; to empower Rhode Islanders to lift their quality of life via increased economic and educational opportunities; and to expose the progressive, special interest agenda as one that creates undue hardship for families and businesses and drives them out of our state.

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July 22, 2026

New Report Shows RI’s Big Government Gamble has Failed Residents

June 22, 2026

ONE SCORE, Twenty Failures: The High Cost of Rhode Island’s One-Party Rule

June 4, 2026

Un-Affordability: Speaker Blazejewski’s Budget Denies Science, Will Raise Energy Costs for Ocean Staters … but Center Claims One Major Victory

May 18, 2026

Unleashing Hope via K–12 Scholarships for Families: Why Rhode Island Should Opt-In to Federal Education Tax Credits

April 16, 2026

Law Centre Calls on Rhode Island Department of Health to Stop Enforcing Conversion Therapy Ban After Supreme Court Ruling

February 5, 2026

TESTIMONY: Senate Commission to Study the Successful Implementation of the Act on Climate

January 27, 2026

MEDIA RELEASE: Center Launches Petition Calling for Affordable Energy Policies

January 20, 2026

“Doc” Skoly Stepping Down as Center’s Chair to Pursue Congressional Seat

January 13, 2026

NEW REPORT PROVIDES ALTERNATIVES TO RHODE ISLAND’S SUICIDAL ACT ON CLIMATE POLICIES

January 2, 2026

Stenhouse Challenges Zurier’s Special Senate Energy Commission to “Act” on the Act On Climate

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