Mike Stenhouse founded the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity in 2011 and currently serves as CEO. Stenhouse earned a Bachelors degree in Economics from Harvard University, where he was also a two-time All-America baseball selection. A Cranston native who attended Cranston East, Stenhouse also enjoyed an 8-year professional baseball career, playing in the major leagues with the Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins, and Boston Red Sox. Mike and his wife, Wendy, live in Cranston and have 3 sons.
Commentary by Mike Stenhouse, CEO Earlier this year I commented on how Rhode Island’s political class was living in a land of make believe. Today, we add PolitiFact-RI, the Providence […]
With up to 97,000 Rhode Islanders expected to remain uninsured after Obamacare and RI’s health benefits exchange is implemented, our new report recommends free-market policies and solutions to provide affordable […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – September 18, 2013 Providence, RI — The Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity announced today that it will conduct a series of “Child Care Union 101” […]
Commentary by Mike Stenhouse; August 15, 2013 The debate continues in a counter OpEd in the ProJo by an executive from the Conservation Law Foundation’s RI office (be sure to […]
Commentary (amended 7/15) See TV discussion on WJAR-10 What are we to make of recent legislative sessions and of our state’s political leadership? After all the talk from the Executive […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 13, 2013 Providence, RI — Hailed as the largest tax cut and economic stimulus plan the state of Rhode Island has ever considered, an expert panel […]
Related Links: GoLocalProv, New Allegations Surface in RI Medicaid Fraud; In the wake of an investigative article published this morning in The Ocean State Current about suspiciously high overtime payments to […]
by Mike Stenhouse. As appeared in the Providence Journal, March 4, 2013 . For perhaps the first time in recent memory, the Rhode Island General Assembly will consider legislation that […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 25, 2013 2013 Zero.Zero Sales Tax Report Center Calls on Politicians to Act on Promises: 25,000 Jobs at Stake Providence, RI — On the heels of […]
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