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Adam Summers is a senior policy analyst at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets. He has written extensively on privatization, government reform, law and economics, and various other political and economic topics.
Summers' articles have been published by the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, Orange County Register, Los Angeles Daily News, Baltimore Sun, and numerous others.
Summers earned an M.A. in Economics from George Mason University and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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- Survey Shows Voters Are Fed Up with Excessive Federal Pay
Adam Summers
September 7, 2010, 5:35pm - Disability Pensions Are Costing Local Governments in San Bernardino County and Elsewhere
Adam Summers
August 31, 2010, 11:13pm - Schwarzenegger Plan: Borrow from Underfunded CalPERS to Patch Underfunded State Budget
Adam Summers
August 31, 2010, 7:06pm - Licensing bloggers in Philadelphia; City requires $300 business license
Adam Summers
August 24, 2010, 3:47pm - Others Cities Had Better Learn From Bell, California Fiasco
Adam Summers
August 19, 2010, 11:26am - Mercatus: Federal Income Taxes Would Have to More Than Double to Maintain Medicare, Social Security Benefits
Adam Summers
July 31, 2010, 10:36pm - CalPERS Responds (Inadequately) to Pension Criticism, Skirts Real Issues
Adam Summers
July 27, 2010, 4:00pm - Without Significant Reforms, Public Pensions Will Bankrupt State and Local Governments
Adam Summers
June 22, 2010, 6:56pm - San Diego Must End Delays and Implement Managed Competition Now
Adam Summers
June 22, 2010, 6:33pm - Lawyer Licensing Laws Lead to Higher Prices, Less Consumer Choice and Access to Legal Services
Adam Summers
June 12, 2010, 3:56pm - Legal System Problems and Solutions Discussed in New Book
Adam Summers
June 12, 2010, 3:18pm - Summers Talks California Public Pension Reform on John and Ken Show
Adam Summers
June 8, 2010, 11:15pm - Instant-Runoff Voting Would Be a Better Alternative Than Open Primary in California, Elsewhere
Adam Summers
June 7, 2010, 3:45pm - California Open Primary Measure Would Reduce Voter Choice, Violate Freedom of Association
Adam Summers
June 7, 2010, 2:36pm - Fixing California's Public Pension System
Adam Summers
June 3, 2010, 12:57pm - How to Stop Public Pensions From Bankrupting California
Adam Summers
June 3, 2010, 7:00am - California Governor's Revised Budget Still Lacks Needed Reforms
Adam Summers
May 14, 2010, 4:36pm - Public Employees Get Manicures, Lap Dances on the Job in L.A.
Adam Summers
May 11, 2010, 8:34pm - As Governments Face Bankruptcy, Study Claims Public Employees Are Underpaid
Adam Summers
May 11, 2010, 1:48pm - Nanny Government Monitors Household Trash Bins in U.K.
Adam Summers
April 30, 2010, 11:58pm - Horse Dentists Harassed by State Licensing Boards
Adam Summers
April 30, 2010, 5:32pm - Survey: Saving for Retirement Is Not the Government's Job
Adam Summers
April 30, 2010, 4:08pm - Santa Clara County, CA Bans Happy Meal Toys
Adam Summers
April 29, 2010, 11:29pm - La Jolla to Secede from City of San Diego?
Adam Summers
April 29, 2010, 9:32pm - House Bills to Crack Down on Pentagon Waste, Government Payment Errors
Adam Summers
April 29, 2010, 6:22pm - The Compassion of Opposing Minimum Wage Laws
Adam Summers
April 28, 2010, 11:55pm - Estimating Massive Public Pension Deficits in California and Across the Nation
Adam Summers
April 7, 2010, 4:35pm - Financial Crisis Forces California Government to Lay Off Employees
Adam Summers
March 12, 2010, 8:21pm - Why the Federal Government Is Broke (Census Edition)
Adam Summers
March 12, 2010, 7:15pm - Atlanta Needs Serious Reforms to Address Public Pension Problems
Adam Summers
March 2, 2010, 3:50pm - Pew Study Pegs States' Pension Deficit at $1 Trillion
Adam Summers
February 19, 2010, 9:08pm - San Diego Should Implement Managed Competition Now to Cut Costs, Improve Services
Adam Summers
February 17, 2010, 2:03pm - California High-Speed Rail Gets $2.25 Billion from Feds, Only $30 Billion (or $70 Billion) to Go!
Adam Summers
February 1, 2010, 10:26pm - LAO: California's High-Speed Rail Business Plan Fails to Address Financial, Risk, Timeline Shortcomings
Adam Summers
January 13, 2010, 6:38pm - California Beggin': State Seeks Billions from Federal Government
Adam Summers
December 31, 2009, 4:17pm - Online Retailers Fight Back Against Attempts to Tax Internet Sales
Adam Summers
December 30, 2009, 11:42pm - British Taxpayers Face £2.2 trillion ($3.5 trillion) Unfunded Pension Liability
Adam Summers
December 30, 2009, 10:51pm - Montana Contracts with Firm to Provide e-Permitting Services
Adam Summers
December 30, 2009, 10:04pm - California Voters Were Railroaded by High-Speed Rail Proposal
Adam Summers
December 4, 2009, 3:48pm - Ayn Rand on the Economic Crisis
Adam Summers
November 9, 2009, 12:51pm - Gun-Control Laws Fail to Prevent Gun Crimes in England; Ayn Rand on Self-Defense
Adam Summers
November 5, 2009, 7:17pm - CA Treasurer Says Public Pensions Will 'Bankrupt' State
Adam Summers
November 4, 2009, 8:29pm - In Honor of Ayn Rand: Alan Greenspan on the Gold Standard and Economic Freedom (1966)
Adam Summers
November 2, 2009, 2:12pm - Rep. Ron Paul's Bill to Audit the Federal Reserve 'Gutted' in Committee
Adam Summers
November 2, 2009, 2:03pm - Anti-Privatization Pacheco Law Continues to Hamstring Massachusetts Budget
Adam Summers
October 28, 2009, 11:35pm - San Diego County to Outsource 200 Health Service Jobs
Adam Summers
October 27, 2009, 11:33pm - San Diego Needs Pension Reform, Managed Competition to Address Fiscal Problems
Adam Summers
October 21, 2009, 8:54pm - The Free Market, Not Government Net Neutrality Mandates, Will Best Serve Consumers
Adam Summers
October 1, 2009, 7:29pm - Novato, CA Sanitary Board Privatizes Wastewater Treatment Plant
Adam Summers
September 30, 2009, 5:50pm - Economy, Bureaucracy, Minimum Wage Hikes Sink Federal Teen Jobs Program
Adam Summers
September 29, 2009, 9:51pm
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