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  • 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

  • New Policy Brief Discusses the Silence on the Federal Debt This Election Season
    New Policy Brief Discusses the Silence on the Federal Debt This Election Season

    By Anthony Randazzo
    October 19, 2016

  • The NAACP is wrong to want to ban new charter schools
    The NAACP is wrong to want to ban new charter schools

    By Tyler Koteskey
    October 19, 2016

  • California’s Proposition 66: Death Penalty Procedures
    California’s Proposition 66: Death Penalty Procedures

    California’s death penalty system does not work.

    By Adrian Moore and Spence Purnell
    October 17, 2016

  • Proposition 65: Dedication of Revenue from Disposable Bag Sales to Wildlife Conservation Fund AND Proposition 67: Plastic Bag Ban Veto Referendum
    Proposition 65: Dedication of Revenue from Disposable Bag Sales to Wildlife Conservation Fund AND Proposition 67: Plastic Bag Ban Veto Referendum

    Prop 67 bans plastic bags and allows stores to charge for other single use bags and pocket the money. Prop 65 says if we do ban plastic bags and allow stores to charge for other bags, that money has to go to an environmental fund.

    By Adrian Moore and Spence Purnell
    October 17, 2016

  • California’s Proposition 64: Marijuana Legalization
    California’s Proposition 64: Marijuana Legalization

    Prop 64 legalizes possession and use of marijuana by adults 21 or older in California.

    By Adrian Moore and Spence Purnell
    October 17, 2016

  • California’s Proposition 63: Background Checks for Ammunition Purchases and Large-Capacity Ammunition Magazine Ban
    California’s Proposition 63: Background Checks for Ammunition Purchases and Large-Capacity Ammunition Magazine Ban

    Prop 63 would clearly violate the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms with a complex and unworkable nest of new regulations and mandates on law enforcement.

    By Adrian Moore
    October 17, 2016

  • California’s Proposition 62: Repeal of Death Penalty
    California’s Proposition 62: Repeal of Death Penalty

    This measure repeals the death penalty and makes the maximum punishment “life without the possibility of parole.”

    By Adrian Moore and Spence Purnell
    October 17, 2016

  • California’s Proposition 61: Drug Price Standards
    California’s Proposition 61: Drug Price Standards

    Prop 61 fails to understands how markets and pricing work and so will most likely lead to fewer drug options and higher prices for Californians—the very opposite of what proponents want to achieve.

    By Adrian Moore and Spence Purnell
    October 17, 2016

  • California’s Proposition 60: Condoms in Pornographic Films
    California’s Proposition 60: Condoms in Pornographic Films

    Prop 60 looks like a solution in search of a problem.

    By Adrian Moore and Spence Purnell
    October 17, 2016

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