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  • Florida Retirement Cost Increases Highlight the Need for Pension Reform
    Florida Retirement Cost Increases Highlight the Need for Pension Reform

    Florida legislators will have to address an additional $2.3 billion in FRS costs in the next eight years.

    By Steven Gassenberger
    April 14, 2021

  • The Challenges Facing the Florida Retirement System Explained
    The Challenges Facing the Florida Retirement System Explained

    Why Florida's pension debt is rapidly growing, how public pensions are really funded, the ways Florida is failing to provide retirement security to workers, and more.

    By Pension Integrity Project
    March 11, 2021

  • Analysis of New Mexico House Bill 12: The Cannabis Regulation Act
    Analysis of New Mexico House Bill 12: The Cannabis Regulation Act

    Recently proposed legislation in New Mexico represents the most streamlined legislative proposal for marijuana legalization in the state to date.

    By Geoffrey Lawrence
    February 24, 2021

  • Changing Course: Driver’s License Suspension in Florida
    Changing Course: Driver’s License Suspension in Florida

    Why the state should stop suspending licenses for offenses that are unrelated to traffic safety.

    By James Craven and Sal Nuzzo
    November 15, 2018

  • How Public Sector Defined Benefit Pension Plans Are Funded
    How Public Sector Defined Benefit Pension Plans Are Funded

    Defined benefit plans are pre-funded, not pay-as-you-go like Social Security

    By Anthony Randazzo
    March 28, 2016

  • Report on P3 Projects and Legislation in California
    Report on P3 Projects and Legislation in California

    By Eric M. Gruzen
    March 19, 2014

  • Why Didn’t Airports Opt Out of TSA
    Why Didn’t Airports Opt Out of TSA

    By Robert Poole
    November 30, 1999

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