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Backgrounders

  • Testing mileage-based user fees as a replacement for Georgia’s gas tax
    Testing mileage-based user fees as a replacement for Georgia’s gas tax

    Georgia’s highways need a new, sustainable funding source.

    By Baruch Feigenbaum and Adrian Moore
    August 22, 2022

  • How to improve transit service for today’s workers and commuters
    How to improve transit service for today’s workers and commuters

    U.S. metro areas need a new transit approach that is tailored to serving the needs of today’s workers.

    By Baruch Feigenbaum
    July 22, 2022

  • Examining the Teachers Retirement System of Texas after the pension reforms of 2019
    Examining the Teachers Retirement System of Texas after the pension reforms of 2019

    Senate Bill 12 of 2019 made reforms, but TRS contributions will likely be insufficient because the pension plan is using outdated economic assumptions.

    By Leonard Gilroy and Steven Gassenberger
    June 3, 2022

  • What is a revenue-risk public-private partnership?
    What is a revenue-risk public-private partnership?

    And when is revenue risk the better financing choice for the state and taxpayers?

    By Robert Poole
    May 6, 2022

  • Why paying down New Hampshire pension debt faster would be a win for taxpayers
    Why paying down New Hampshire pension debt faster would be a win for taxpayers

    A “catch-up” payment toward the New Hampshire Retirement System's unfunded liabilities would reduce pension debt and yield long-term cost savings.

    By Zachary Christensen
    May 3, 2022

  • Evaluating the potential impacts of Louisiana Senate Bill 438
    Evaluating the potential impacts of Louisiana Senate Bill 438

    The proposed hybrid plan is more expensive than the current pension under all scenarios.

    By Leonard Gilroy and Steven Gassenberger
    April 22, 2022

  • Paying down PSPRS debt faster is a win for taxpayers
    Paying down PSPRS debt faster is a win for taxpayers

    Unfunded PSPRS and ASRS liabilities make those pension systems more costly, pressuring government budgets. Paying down pension debt as fast as possible avoids interest costs and saves taxpayers money.

    By Leonard Gilroy and Steven Gassenberger
    April 19, 2022

  • House Bill 2486 threatens Oklahoma’s pension progress 
    House Bill 2486 threatens Oklahoma’s pension progress 

    Public pension changes of the magnitude being proposed should receive rigorous actuarial and risk analyses that ensure future generations’ interests are protected.

    By Steven Gassenberger and Leonard Gilroy
    April 8, 2022

  • Actuary highlights House Bill 55’s costs and risks to the Alaska Public Employees’ Retirement System
    Actuary highlights House Bill 55’s costs and risks to the Alaska Public Employees’ Retirement System

    Changes of the magnitude being proposed in Alaska House BIll 55 should receive rigorous actuarial and risk analyses that have not yet been conducted.

    By Ryan Frost and Leonard Gilroy
    April 4, 2022

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