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Does Occupational Licensing Really Improve Public Health and Safety?
Who benefits by limiting entry into a job field? Those already working in the field, as it shields them from competition.
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Dallas Police and Fire Pension Reforms See Early Success
Dallas is demonstrating the value in passing reforms that focus on core issues of governance and supplementary pension accounts.
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As It Recovers, Puerto Rico Needs More People and More Economic Freedom
Puerto Rico remains mired in bankruptcy: to escape, it will have to attract foreign immigrants and provide opportunities for them.
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Reason Introduces Interactive Visualization of Colorado’s Unfunded Pension Liability
The visualization uses annual PERA reports to break down the sources of the system’s added unfunded liabilities over the past 20 years.
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Despite Poor Process, Kentucky Enacts Meaningful Pension Plan Design, Funding Policy Reforms
The bill constitutes a significant improvement overall, with meaningful risk reduction and better funding policy across Kentucky’s various retirement plans.
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Unreleased Report Shows Los Angeles Unified School District’s Unfunded Retiree Health Benefit Liability Nears $15 Billion
Compared to the previous biennial report, unfunded liabilities increased $1.4 billion. The actuarial report findings will impact the district's 2018 balance sheet.
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Contracts With Private Prisons Should Prioritize Quality Inmate Service Delivery Over Costs
A performance-based approach to corrections that prioritizes rehabilitating inmates is gaining momentum in private prisons.
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New York City Schools Should Continue Using Fair Student Funding
Fair Student Funding is set of best practices that can drive innovation, change, and accountability.
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Striking Teachers Are Right To Be Outraged, Wrong On the Solutions
A systematic, decades-long hiring glut of non-teaching staffing positions is taking too much money.