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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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- ANALYSIS: San Diego, San Jose Lead the Way in Local Pension Reform
Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Local Government Privatization
Adam Summers
May 6, 2013 - Developments in Local Government Privatization
Annual Privatization Report 2013 examines local government privatization trends
Harris Kenny, Adam Summers and Steven Titch
May 6, 2013 - ANALYSIS: Is Managed Competition Dead in San Diego?
Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Local Government Privatization
Adam Summers
May 6, 2013 - BCFC Outlines $795 Billion in Federal Budget Savings
Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Federal Government Privatization
Adam Summers
April 15, 2013 - Congress Takes on Postal Service Reform—Again
Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Federal Government Privatization
Adam Summers
April 15, 2013 - Space Privatization Update
Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Federal Government Privatization
Adam Summers
April 15, 2013 - Federal Privatization Update
Annual Privatization Report examines privatization and public-private partnership trends at the federal level
Adam Summers, Anthony Randazzo, Steven Titch and Victor Nava
April 15, 2013 - Leave It to California
Furloughs Lead to Higher Leave Payouts to State Workers
Adam Summers
April 9, 2013 - Reform California’s Tax System to Boost Economy
Adam Summers
February 13, 2013, 6:26pm - California Must Reform Tax Code to Spur Economic Growth
State Should Eliminate Special-Interest Tax Breaks, Lower Business Taxes for All
Adam Summers and Jon Coupal
February 11, 2013 - Minimum Wage Hike Would Hurt California Economy
Long Beach is now suffering the unintended consequences of minimum wage laws
Adam Summers
February 1, 2013 - Tax Credits in California: Economic Growth Engine or Wasteful Corporate Welfare?
Shining a light on California's most egregious tax credits and exemptions
Adam Summers and Ankur Chawla
January 30, 2013 - New Reason Study Calls for California Tax Reform
Adam Summers
January 30, 2013, 2:04pm - California Shouldn't Raise Minimum Wage
Adam Summers
January 28, 2013, 2:31pm - California, Los Angeles Drowning in a Sea of Taxes, Regulation, and Debt
Public Knows Burdensome Regulations Are Sending Jobs to Other Cities and States
Adam Summers
December 3, 2012 - Is California Still Going to the Dogs on Pet Groomer Licensing?
Adam Summers
July 10, 2012, 2:41pm - "There's Always Next Year" for a Sound California Budget
Adam Summers
June 26, 2012, 1:58pm - California State Legislature to Vote on Budget
Will lawmakers implement real austerity measures?
Adam Summers
June 25, 2012 - Privatization, Outsourcing and Insourcing Trends in Federal Government
Federal Government Privatization Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2011
Adam Summers and Anthony Randazzo
May 1, 2012 - Privatization and Public-Private Partnership Trends in Local Government
Local Government Privatization Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2011
Harris Kenny and Adam Summers
May 1, 2012 - Being Taken for a Ride on High-Speed Rail in California
Adam Summers
April 27, 2012, 4:21pm - Californians Being Taken for a Ride on High-Speed Rail
Why California's latest high-speed rail plan lacks merit
Adam Summers
April 27, 2012 - Privatization-Not Junk Mail-Is Needed to Reform the U.S. Postal Service
Adam Summers
March 23, 2012, 2:59pm - USPS Is $14 Billion In the Red This Year, So It Promotes Junk Mail
Why privatization is a better tactic to save the U.S. mail
Adam Summers
March 22, 2012 - California Barking Up the Wrong Tree with Pet Groomer Licensing Bill
Adam Summers
March 1, 2012 - California is Barking Up the Wrong Tree with Pet Groomer Licensing Bill
Adam Summers
February 27, 2012, 2:10pm - California Bill Proposes Licensing for Pet Groomers
Adam Summers
February 3, 2012, 5:14pm - Jerry Brown Continues to Push High-Speed Rail Boondoggle while California Drowns in Debt
Adam Summers
January 27, 2012, 2:59pm - Time to Face Reality on the California High-Speed Rail Project
Cost estimates keep soaring but Gov. Brown keeps pushing the rail system
Adam Summers
January 27, 2012 - South Carolina: The State that Booed the Golden Rule
Adam Summers
January 23, 2012, 6:44pm - Surprise, Surprise, California Gov. Jerry Brown Calls for More Tax Increases
Adam Summers
December 6, 2011, 6:07pm - California Public Employees Unions Not Serious About Pension Reform
Adam Summers
October 13, 2011, 6:05pm - California Revenues Already Well Behind Projections, Signals Possible Automatic Budget Cuts
Adam Summers
October 12, 2011, 6:29pm - Latest California Insanity: Regulating Babysitters
Adam Summers
September 3, 2011, 3:35pm - The Virtue of Not Compromising (on Liberty)
Adam Summers
August 31, 2011, 10:16pm - College Students Don't Care for Grade Point Average Socialism
Adam Summers
August 31, 2011, 9:35pm - Where Have All the Millionaires Gone?
Adam Summers
August 30, 2011, 10:03pm - Happy Cost of Government Day, California!
Adam Summers
August 22, 2011, 2:32am - About that Debt Ceiling Deal and Those Spending Cuts
Why the S&P downgrade could be just the beginning
Adam Summers
August 17, 2011 - Fiat Money Turns 40: It's Time to Return to a Gold Standard
Adam Summers
August 15, 2011, 8:18pm - Brown v. Plata Ruling Highlights Need for Reform (Not Tax Increases)
A multi-faceted approach is necessary to finally reform California's correctional system
Harris Kenny and Adam Summers
June 2, 2011 - Time to Eliminate the Blight of California's Redevelopment Agencies
Examples in San Jose and other areas show how redevelopment agencies fail taxpayers
Adam Summers
April 26, 2011 - Happy Tax Freedom Day, California!
Adam Summers
April 16, 2011, 7:35pm - California High-Speed Rail: Next Stop, Bankruptcy
Adam Summers
April 4, 2011, 3:31am - California High-Speed Rail
The next stop is bankruptcy
Adam Summers
April 3, 2011 - Summers on Public Pay and Pensions in Minnesota and Elsewhere
Adam Summers
March 31, 2011, 3:59pm - Amtrak CEO Takes Car to Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony After Train Breaks Down
Adam Summers
March 30, 2011, 11:49pm - Fortune-Tellers in Salem, Mass. Didn't Foresee Greater Competition from Lifting Licensing Restrictions
Adam Summers
March 30, 2011, 6:46pm - Little Hoover Commission Report Paints Dire Picture of California Public Pensions
Adam Summers
March 30, 2011, 3:39pm - Wisconsin, Unions, and Collective Bargaining
Adam Summers
March 27, 2011, 11:57pm
