The Buckeye Institute has eight focus areas: accountable government, budget and taxes, education, energy and environment, federalism, health care, labor, and legal. In each of those issue areas, Buckeye staff produce peer-reviewed policy reports, provide expert testimony to Ohio's state legislature and the
United States Congress, and submit amicus briefs to state and federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. As part of its accountable government priority area, the Buckeye Institute also has searchable salary databases, using publicly available information, for local, state, K-12, and higher education public employees. The organization has called its salary databases “the key to transparency” for government. Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel mirrored the Buckeye Institute's efforts on his own transparency website.
Taxes and spending The Buckeye Institute has supported a reduction in the Ohio state income tax. The Buckeye Institute has twice published "The Piglet Book", an account of government spending that it deems wasteful. In 2006, the organization supported a proposed constitutional amendment that would have placed annual limits on the growth of tax revenue and government spending, similar to other states'
Taxpayer Bills of Rights.
Education The Institute produces reports and research that promote a market-based approach to education, including
vouchers and
charter schools. In 2008, the Buckeye Institute launched a database which includes publicly available information about the salaries of Ohio public school teachers. == References ==