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Why teacher salaries are flat as school spending soars
Benefit costs, staffing trends and class sizes may explain why teacher salaries have remained flat while K-12 education spending has grown.
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Properly designed impact fees could help Wakulla County accommodate population growth
Impact fees can effectively offset the need to raise additional revenue from other fees and taxes, such as property taxes.
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How text messages could help California reduce parole and probation violations
Text message reminders for parole and probation meetings are an easy and inexpensive way to help people stay on track and reduce recidivism.
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Scrutinizing high ESG fees, greenwashing and the politicization of public pension funds
ESG-focused investing is drawing criticism, even from some supporters, due to overstated claims and high fees.
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Reforming the Department of Transportation’s aviation consumer protection authority
DOT increasingly uses its authority to protect consumers from unfair practices to chip away at airline deregulation.
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Improving K-12 open enrollment transparency is low-hanging fruit for state policymakers
Parents and policymakers need transparent data about public school transfers.
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The UK’s margin call offers warning signs for public pension funds in the US
American policymakers can derive an important lesson from the current pension challenges in the United Kingdom.
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Colorado’s opportunity to determine its own mental health rules
Under Proposition 122, the Natural Medicine Health Act, Colorado would create America’s second state-regulated framework for allowing certified mental health professionals to administer psychedelics.
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Transportation departments embrace revenue-risk public-private partnerships
Revenue-risk P3s create a customer-provider relationship that is absent when the state builds and maintains a highway based on what the legislature decides.
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The future of school choice: Funding all students through education savings accounts
Making education savings accounts the default funding mechanism for K-12 education and eliminating residential assignment would establish a robust education marketplace that is parent-driven and student-centered.
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Cannabis markets: Growth, innovation, and burdensome regulation
As the legal cannabis market matures in some states, the regulatory regime in place threatens to stifle cannabis producers and retailers.
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More portable retirement plans would help public employers attract and keep workers
Government employers need meet the demands of today's workers by introducing more portable retirement options and addressing the long vesting requirements of many plans.
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The SAFE-T Act’s impact on cash bail in Illinois
There is ample evidence that even short periods of pretrial detention can result in lost employment, severed social ties, a greater risk of conviction, and an increased likelihood of future criminal involvement.
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The government’s bad idea to stop using single-use plastics
The Government Services Administration is considering phasing out single-use plastics from its supply chain and procurement processes.
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Supreme Court hears pork producers’ challenge to unlawful California animal rights law
The U.S. Supreme Court heard recent arguments in a case that could have an enormous impact on the future of animal agriculture, the availability of meat, and the price consumers pay for it.
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Three economists receive Nobel for hotly debated work on banking and financial crises
Bernanke, Diamond, and Dybvig’s work, when framed by the events of 2008, has drawn both intense praise and intense criticism.
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Webinar: The impacts of autonomous vehicle technology and role of public policy
Watch this video featuring Reason Foundation, Brookings Institution, and Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering on the future technological, socio-economic and public policy impacts of autonomous vehicles.
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Express lanes for electric vehicles should be a bigger part of Denver’s long-range transportation plan
With today’s large-scale decentralization of homes and jobs, it is increasingly difficult to serve large numbers of workers via mass transit.
