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How Telehealth Services Can Help Address Mental Health Issues and Police Reform Efforts
Individuals with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter than those without mental illness.
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Evaluating South Carolina’s Proposed Defined Contribution Retirement Plan
Proposed retirement plan reflects many best practices and could meet the needs of retirees, the state and taxpayers.
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How Local Government Names Make It Difficult to Monitor Their Spending and Other Data
Taxpayers, lawmakers and researchers need a broadly accepted, reliable, and comprehensive way to identify local governments and their data.
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How to Increase Public Pension Fund Investment in U.S. Infrastructure
Public pension systems are increasingly seeking reliable long-term investments in revenue-generating infrastructure, such as airports, seaports, and tolled roads and bridges.
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Should Public Pension Funds Be Investing In Cryptocurrency?
It’s not wise for public pension funds and taxpayers to be exposed to such financial risk.
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10 Reasons Why the FDA Should Not Ban Menthol Cigarettes
"Such a ban will trigger criminal penalties, which will disproportionately impact people of color, as well as prioritize criminalization over public health and harm reduction."
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Biden Administration’s Civil Rights Review of I-45 Project In Houston Could Threaten Infrastructure Projects Everywhere
The Biden administration took the unusual step of pausing a Houston highway widening project by using a provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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Evaluating North Dakota’s Defined Contribution Retirement Plan for State Employees
Low cost policy changes could make North Dakota's defined contribution retirement plan a model for public retirement plans across the country.
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Rhode Island Should Focus on Tobacco Harm Reduction, Not E-Cigarette Flavor Bans
Legislation in Rhode Island would give smokers access to e-cigarettes as a tool to quit smoking while ensuring youth are prohibited from purchasing vaping products.
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North Dakota Should Prioritize Paying Down Pension Debt
To pay off current and future NDPERS debt a switch to a defined contribution plan should be paired with implementing a viable funding strategy.
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Private Equity Returns Stumbled in 2020, Hurting Public Pension Plans
Public pension systems should be concerned about private equity's high fees and potential to hurt asset performance.
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How to Pay for Rebuilding and Modernizing America’s Aging Interstates
Congress has shown little interest in addressing the need to repair and modernize America’s most important highways.
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Congress Should Modernize Regulatory Authorities to Support Automated Vehicle Development
Automated vehicles have great potential to improve safety, mobility, and access for Americans.
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The Alliance Model for EMS Lacks Competition, Oversight and Accountability
The alliance model for emergency medical services fails to harness the competition that's essential in making public-private partnerships valuable for taxpayers and governments.
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The Challenges and Opportunities Ahead For U.S. Infrastructure
Why Congress and state governments have struggled to properly prioritize and pay for infrastructure projects and what can be done to change that.
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To Repair Its Deficient Bridges, Pennsylvania Should Embrace Value-Added Tolling
PennDOT and public-private partnerships can fully address concerns about wasteful government spending, double taxation, and the fairness of tolling.
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How To Prevent Another Texas Power Failure
The severity of the failures, the lives lost to the cold, and the significant costs imposed on the state demand a careful look at the range of possible alternatives.
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Improve Efficiency in Transportation Funding By Using a Metric-Driven Process
A national metric could be modeled after North Carolina and Virginia, which utilize effective, objective project selection processes.
