About

Since 1986, the mission of the South Carolina Policy Council Education Foundation has been to promote freedom, to protect freedom, and to prove that freedom works. We are dedicated to restoring citizens’ power and prosperity through limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty and responsibility.

No other organization can match the Policy Council’s success in assembling top national and state experts on issues affecting the taxpayers of South Carolina. That ability – the ability to bring new ideas to bear on policy debates and to create a broad base of support for market-based reforms – makes the Policy Council our state’s leader in turning sound ideas into optimal state policies.

The Policy Council was founded by one of South Carolina’s most admired and successful business leaders, the late Thomas A. Roe of Greenville. Tom envisioned an institution that could introduce the principles of limited government and free enterprise into current political debates by supplying elected leaders with credible and up-to-date research, ideas, and analysis.

The Policy Council is still committed to that goal. Over the past several years, SCPC has been at the center of debates over how to bring market-based reforms to South Carolina state government. Indeed, even the opponents of limited government and economic freedom concede that the Policy Council is the premier research institution advocating those principles.