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Retirement Security Requires Fully Funding Public Pension Plans
Pensions are not designed to function as PAYGO, Ponzi-like operations.
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Fitch Ratings Tracks the Growth of Managed Lanes in the US
The important differences between high-occupancy toll lanes and Express Lanes.
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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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New Executive Order Aims to Increase Competitive Sourcing, Reorganize Agencies
Order is the latest attempt to take on the elusive goal of reorganizing the federal government.
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Vacation Home Rentals Should Not Be Regulated
There is no negative impact, no impaired stability and no diminished neighborhood pride — just a lot of happy people on vacation and a lot of happy homeowners.
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Heat-Not-Burn Tobacco: The Next Wave Of A Harm-Reduction Revolution
A little-known tobacco technology, Heat-not-Burn (HNB), has the potential to slash smoking-related death and disease by appealing to the millions of smokers who've failed to quit using e-cigarettes and traditional nicotine-replacement therapies.
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Rhode Island’s Proposed E-Cigarette Tax Would Hurt Public Health and Economy
Rhode Island should do what public health officials in Great Britain do — encourage smokers who won’t or can’t quit cigarettes to switch to e-cigarettes.
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Florida Should Re-think Punitive Sentences and Increase Felony Theft Thresholds
As Florida’s neighboring states have shown, it is possible to raise felony theft thresholds and reduce larceny-theft offenses simultaneously.
