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Oregon Decriminalizes Drugs, Replaces Arrests With Health Care
Oregon is hoping to duplicate Portugal's dramatic success with drug decriminalization.
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How Should States Count Students to Calculate School Funding?
School finance systems should base education funding on current enrollment figures to best serve students and promote equity.
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California’s Marin County Pension System Moves Toward More Prudent Investment Return Assumptions
The pension system recently joined a handful of other local pension plans adopting more realistic investment return assumptions.
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School Choice Myths Should Not Block Educational Freedom
Iowa is considering legislation that would fund students directly to allows more families to access educational alternatives.
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Kentucky Legislature Considers Changes to Teacher Retirement Plan
The pension reforms under consideration could save Kentucky $3.57 billion over 30 years.
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Should Automated Vehicle Regulations Precede Technical Standardization?
Part three of Reason's Debatable Ideas series examines whether premature regulations would actually threaten ongoing AV development and the large potential safety and mobility benefits of automated vehicles.
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California Should Prioritize Paying Down Public Pension Debt
California's long-term budget concerns should motivate policymakers to pay down the state's public pension debt as quickly as possible.
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Legislation in Nebraska Would Use Stress Testing to Assess Municipal Pension Sustainability
Stress testing would be a significant first step in identifying and addressing the challenges facing locally-run pension plans in Nebraska.
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Florida’s Latest Proposal to Expand Educational Freedom
The state legislature is considering a bill to expand education funding provided directly to students instead of systems.
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Does the Bay Area Need a New Subway Tunnel?
With uncertainty around travel patterns and a likely permanent increase in remote work, BART’s existing transbay tunnel is unlikely to return to its peak utilization in the years ahead.
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How the Biden Administration and Congress Can Pave the Path for Automated Vehicles
New policy brief lays out several steps federal policymakers can take to adapt the automotive regulatory apparatus to automated driving system technologies.
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Putting Milton Friedman’s Shareholder Primacy Ideas in Historical Context
If corporate executives eschew profits in pursuit of social responsibility, they are, in Friedman’s terms, “spending someone else's money for a general social interest.”
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Court Ruling On San Diego’s Public Pensions Demonstrates the Importance of Stakeholder Collaboration in Pension Reform
As a result of the ruling on Proposition B, San Diego will likely be required to offer a defined-benefit pension plan to new hires.
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Maryland Should Reject Unfair and Ineffective Flavored Tobacco Ban
A ban on flavored tobacco products could negatively impact public health and criminal justice reforms in Maryland.
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A Better Way to Fund Students and Schools in Mississippi
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the need to update Mississippi’s K-12 education funding model, in particular the way that the state's school finance formula counts students.
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Examining Legislation to Expand Open Enrollment in Arizona
Arizona lawmakers are looking to remove barriers preventing public school students from attending a school outside of their residentially assigned school district as well as more easily find transportation to their school of choice.
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New Budget Reconciliation Resolution Portends Dangerous Debt Trends
The resolution predicts the national debt will reach $41 trillion in 2030.
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Lawmakers in 10 States Have Introduced Proposals to Legalize Marijuana This Year
Congress also appears ready to consider the decriminalization of marijuana at the federal level in 2021.
