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  • New Jersey Transit’s Biggest Issue is Poor Management and a Lack of Innovation
    New Jersey Transit’s Biggest Issue is Poor Management and a Lack of Innovation

    Improving management oversight and using innovation to improve transit should be top priorities for agency

    By Baruch Feigenbaum
    November 3, 2016

  • How Student-Based Budgeting Can Help El Paso’s Schools
    How Student-Based Budgeting Can Help El Paso’s Schools

    Clint Independent School District’s budgeting practices and the funding disparities between the district’s schools have become a key issue.

    By Aaron Garth Smith
    November 3, 2016

  • New Jersey’s Funding Solution May be Revenue-Neutral, but it makes Awful Transportation Policy
    New Jersey’s Funding Solution May be Revenue-Neutral, but it makes Awful Transportation Policy

    By Baruch Feigenbaum
    November 2, 2016

  • Mississippi the latest state to pursue Student-Based Budgeting
    Mississippi the latest state to pursue Student-Based Budgeting

    By Tyler Koteskey
    October 31, 2016

  • California Shouldn’t Create Constitutional Workarounds to Target Smokers With Tax Increases
    California Shouldn’t Create Constitutional Workarounds to Target Smokers With Tax Increases

    Prop. 56, the latest tobacco tax attempt, is mostly a giveaway to special interests.

    By Brian Fojtik
    October 31, 2016

  • Cigarette Taxes and Spending Requirements for Anti-Tobacco Programs Don’t Belong In Colorado’s State Constitution
    Cigarette Taxes and Spending Requirements for Anti-Tobacco Programs Don’t Belong In Colorado’s State Constitution

    The policy problems with Colorado’s Amendment 72.

    By Brian Fojtik
    October 31, 2016

  • North Dakota’s Cigarette Tax Measure Looks Like a Blank Check for Government Spending
    North Dakota’s Cigarette Tax Measure Looks Like a Blank Check for Government Spending

    North Dakota’s Measure 4 lacks oversight and accountability.

    By Brian Fojtik
    October 31, 2016

  • Pension Reform Newsletter #30 (October 2016 edition)
    Pension Reform Newsletter #30 (October 2016 edition)

    By Leonard Gilroy
    October 28, 2016

  • The Fight Over English-Only Education Highlights the Need For School Choice
    The Fight Over English-Only Education Highlights the Need For School Choice

    With a robust system of school choice, voters wouldn’t be forced to choose between educator autonomy and parental empowerment.

    By Aaron Garth Smith
    October 28, 2016

  • Pension Obligation Bonds Add Risk When Pension Funds Should be Decreasing Risk
    Pension Obligation Bonds Add Risk When Pension Funds Should be Decreasing Risk

    States Consider Pension Obligation Bonds Despite Risk

    By Brian Fojtik
    October 27, 2016

  • Teachers’ Pensions are Unaffordable for Teachers, Too
    Teachers’ Pensions are Unaffordable for Teachers, Too

    By Daniel Takash
    October 26, 2016

  • Alaska Backs Down from Pension Obligation Bond Issuance
    Alaska Backs Down from Pension Obligation Bond Issuance

    By Anthony Randazzo
    October 26, 2016

  • Teachers Pensions are Unaffordable for Teachers, Too
    Teachers Pensions are Unaffordable for Teachers, Too

    October 26, 2016

  • Spotlight On Pension Fund Investment in Real Estate
    Spotlight On Pension Fund Investment in Real Estate

    By Anil Niraula
    October 25, 2016

  • Report Challenges Standard Actuarial Practices in Public Pensions
    Report Challenges Standard Actuarial Practices in Public Pensions

    By Truong Bui
    October 25, 2016

  • Houstons Pension Problems: Causes and Solutions
    Houstons Pension Problems: Causes and Solutions

    By Truong Bui
    October 24, 2016

  • Fitch Downgrades Dallas Bond Rating Over City Public Safety Pension Crisis
    Fitch Downgrades Dallas Bond Rating Over City Public Safety Pension Crisis

    By Anil Niraula
    October 24, 2016

  • Legislators Push For Gas Tax Increase Instead of Cutting Bloated Bureaucracy
    Legislators Push For Gas Tax Increase Instead of Cutting Bloated Bureaucracy

    Plans have been introduced to raise $7.4 billion for transportation funding, mostly by raising the gas tax 17 cents a gallon.

    By Baruch Feigenbaum
    October 20, 2016

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