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# *Live Free and Learn: Scholarship Tax Credits in New Hampshire*

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January 26, 2015 9 - 10 PM EST 

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Featuring **Jim Forsythe**, Former New Hampshire State Senator; **Dick Komer**, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice; **Jason Bedrick**, policy analyst, Cato Institute ([@JasonBedrick](http://www.twitter.com/JasonBedrick)); Moderated by **Caleb O. Brown**, Director of Multimedia, Cato Institute ([@cobrown](http://www.twitter.com/cobrown)). 

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In 2012, the Live Free or Die state launched a bold initiative to advance educational freedom: scholarship tax credits. The New Hampshire Opportunity Scholarship Act grants tax credits to businesses worth 85 percent of their contributions to nonprofit scholarship organizations that fund low- and middle-income students to attend private or home schools. The scholarship law then faced both a repeal effort in the legislature and a bitter lawsuit that went to the state’s highest court. Join us as we present [*Live Free and Learn: Scholarship Tax Credits in New Hampshire*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmUrrns9ozs%20), a short film detailing the struggle over New Hampshire’s scholarship law and some of the families it has touched. After the film, please join us live online and on Twitter at [\#CatoConnects](https://twitter.com/hashtag/CatoConnects) for a discussion on the politics, policy, and constitutionality of scholarship tax credit laws. 

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