Austill Stuart
Policy Analyst, Reason Foundation
Austill Stuart is a policy analyst at Reason Foundation, a non-profit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.
Prior to joining Reason, Austill worked with policy in a variety of settings-nonprofits, on Capitol Hill, and in fundraising-where areas of focus included small business regulation, privatization, health care, and labor. Before moving to the D.C. area in early 2009, he worked for five years in the financial services industry, mostly in wealth management.
Austill earned his M.A. in Economics at George Mason University and his B.A. in Economics from Auburn University.
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Proposed Bill Offers Hope for Louisiana State Parks’ Severe Funding Challenges
Louisiana, a state which faces difficult finances, has absorbed $12 million of the department's cuts to its Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism. Recent legislation offers a potential solution to Louisiana state parks' funding woes.
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Proposed Pennsylvania DOC Contracting Tax Could Undermine, Not Help, Recidivism Reduction
Tax could divert resources from current efforts aimed at reducing recidivism, increase costs to taxpayers.
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Unions Try to Make It Harder for Local Governments to Make Pension Payments
As unfunded pension liabilities mount, California’s cities and counties are bracing for the additional contributions they’ll have to make to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System.
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Private Prisons are Helping California and Can Be Used to Reduce Prison Population
Government contracts with private prisons are evolving and starting to connect payments to prisons to recidivism rates.
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