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Forecast: State pension debt totals $1.3 trillion at the end of 2023

Forecast: State pension debt totals $1.3 trillion at the end of 2023

By Pension Integrity Project

Reason Foundation projects $1.3 trillion in total unfunded liabilities across 118 state pension plans at the end of the 2023 fiscal year.

Parents can be satisfied with public schools and also want more educational choices
Parents can be satisfied with public schools and also want more educational choices

By Jude Schwalbach

Examining calls to bring back Alaska’s defined benefit pensions
Examining calls to bring back Alaska’s defined benefit pensions

By Zachary Christensen and Jen Sidorova

New data shows Arizona’s public schools, including rural ones, can compete in an education marketplace
New data shows Arizona’s public schools, including rural ones, can compete in an education marketplace

By Jude Schwalbach

Mississippi River is dangerously low and outdated federal law is blocking solutions
Mississippi River is dangerously low and outdated federal law is blocking solutions

By Jay Derr

  • Preliminary evidence on the safety of automated vehicles is overwhelmingly positive
    Preliminary evidence on the safety of automated vehicles is overwhelmingly positive

    Commentary by Marc Scribner

  • Aviation Policy News: FAA shutdowns should not happen
    Aviation Policy News: FAA shutdowns should not happen

    Aviation Policy Newsletter by Robert Poole

  • Pension Reform News: State pension debt forecast, risky public equity investments, and more
    Pension Reform News: State pension debt forecast, risky public equity investments, and more

    Pension Reform Newsletter by Zachary Christensen

  • Connecticut’s efforts to reform public pensions may add long-term costs for taxpayers
    Connecticut’s efforts to reform public pensions may add long-term costs for taxpayers

    Commentary by Ryan Frost

  • California law would create arbitrary and questionable bans for cannabis product labels
    California law would create arbitrary and questionable bans for cannabis product labels

    Commentary by Geoffrey Lawrence

  • Florida counties need to take a new approach to transit services
    Florida counties need to take a new approach to transit services

    Commentary by Adrian Moore and Baruch Feigenbaum

  • The long road to Kentucky’s limited medical marijuana legalization
    The long road to Kentucky’s limited medical marijuana legalization

    Commentary by Geoffrey Lawrence and Madison Carlino

  • Funding Education Opportunity: Fiscal cliff for federal funds, NYC council members propose school choice and more
    Funding Education Opportunity: Fiscal cliff for federal funds, NYC council members propose school choice and more

    Funding Education Opportunity Newsletter by Jude Schwalbach

  • Five actions transit agencies should take in the next two years
    Five actions transit agencies should take in the next two years

    Policy Brief by Baruch Feigenbaum

Pension Integrity Project

  • Examining calls to bring back Alaska’s defined benefit pensions
    Examining calls to bring back Alaska’s defined benefit pensions

    Commentary by Zachary Christensen and Jen Sidorova

  • Forecast: State pension debt totals $1.3 trillion at the end of 2023
    Forecast: State pension debt totals $1.3 trillion at the end of 2023

    Data Visualization by Pension Integrity Project

  • Pension Reform News: State pension debt forecast, risky public equity investments, and more
    Pension Reform News: State pension debt forecast, risky public equity investments, and more

    Pension Reform Newsletter by Zachary Christensen

Education

  • Parents can be satisfied with public schools and also want more educational choices
    Parents can be satisfied with public schools and also want more educational choices

    Commentary by Jude Schwalbach

  • New data shows Arizona’s public schools, including rural ones, can compete in an education marketplace
    New data shows Arizona’s public schools, including rural ones, can compete in an education marketplace

    Commentary by Jude Schwalbach

  • Funding Education Opportunity: Fiscal cliff for federal funds, NYC council members propose school choice and more
    Funding Education Opportunity: Fiscal cliff for federal funds, NYC council members propose school choice and more

    Funding Education Opportunity Newsletter by Jude Schwalbach

Transportation

  • Mississippi River is dangerously low and outdated federal law is blocking solutions
    Mississippi River is dangerously low and outdated federal law is blocking solutions

    Commentary by Jay Derr

  • Preliminary evidence on the safety of automated vehicles is overwhelmingly positive
    Preliminary evidence on the safety of automated vehicles is overwhelmingly positive

    Commentary by Marc Scribner

  • Aviation Policy News: FAA shutdowns should not happen
    Aviation Policy News: FAA shutdowns should not happen

    Aviation Policy Newsletter by Robert Poole

Privatization

  • Surface Transportation News: Transportation finance report, automated transit progress, and more
    Surface Transportation News: Transportation finance report, automated transit progress, and more

    Surface Transportation Innovations Newsletter by Robert Poole

  • Using DBFOM public-private partnerships benefits drivers, states and transportation contractors
    Using DBFOM public-private partnerships benefits drivers, states and transportation contractors

    Policy Brief by Robert Poole

  • Annual Privatization Report 2023
    Annual Privatization Report 2023

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  • Massachusetts’ proposed cigar tax increase would not improve health outcomes
    Massachusetts’ proposed cigar tax increase would not improve health outcomes

    Testimony by Guy Bentley

  • Debunking the myth that vaping causes popcorn lung
    Debunking the myth that vaping causes popcorn lung

    Backgrounder by Michelle Minton

  • California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act threatens the foundational principle of the internet
    California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act threatens the foundational principle of the internet

    Policy Brief by Eric Goldman and Adrian Moore

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  • Forecast: State pension debt totals $1.3 trillion at the end of 2023
    Forecast: State pension debt totals $1.3 trillion at the end of 2023

    Data Visualization by Pension Integrity Project

  • Comparing Alaska’s defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans
    Comparing Alaska’s defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans

    Data Visualization by Truong Bui, Zachary Christensen, Swaroop Bhagavatula and Jordan Campbell

  • Continuum of risk for tobacco and nicotine products
    Continuum of risk for tobacco and nicotine products

    Data Visualization by Guy Bentley

Policy Studies

  • Five actions transit agencies should take in the next two years
    Five actions transit agencies should take in the next two years

    Policy Brief by Baruch Feigenbaum

  • California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act threatens the foundational principle of the internet
    California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act threatens the foundational principle of the internet

    Policy Brief by Eric Goldman and Adrian Moore

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    Five actions transit agencies should take immediately

    Policy Brief by Baruch Feigenbaum

Reason Foundation Newsletters

  • Aviation Policy News: FAA shutdowns should not happen
    Aviation Policy News: FAA shutdowns should not happen

    Aviation Policy Newsletter by Robert Poole

  • Pension Reform News: State pension debt forecast, risky public equity investments, and more
    Pension Reform News: State pension debt forecast, risky public equity investments, and more

    Pension Reform Newsletter by Zachary Christensen

  • Funding Education Opportunity: Fiscal cliff for federal funds, NYC council members propose school choice and more
    Funding Education Opportunity: Fiscal cliff for federal funds, NYC council members propose school choice and more

    Funding Education Opportunity Newsletter by Jude Schwalbach

  • Surface Transportation News: Reducing car travel, Maryland express lanes, and more
    Surface Transportation News: Reducing car travel, Maryland express lanes, and more

    Surface Transportation Innovations Newsletter by Robert Poole

  • Aviation Policy News: More near-misses than FAA acknowledged, the push to reduce air travel, and more
    Aviation Policy News: More near-misses than FAA acknowledged, the push to reduce air travel, and more

    Aviation Policy Newsletter by Robert Poole

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  • Annual Privatization Report 2023
    Annual Privatization Report 2023

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    Annual Privatization Report 2023 — Transportation Finance

    Annual Privatization Report by Robert Poole

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    Annual Privatization Report 2023 — Aviation

    Annual Privatization Report by Marc Scribner

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