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California State Auditor Found El Cerrito at High-Risk of Financial Distress — Before COVID-19
The economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic is likely to put pressure on the city to get its finances in order or potentially face Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
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Water Markets Present a Solution to Florida’s Water Bottling Conflict
A market-based approach would treat all users equally and result in prices that are more accurately determined by supply and demand.
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The Town of Gilbert and How Pension Debt Drives Rising Costs for Arizona Municipal Governments
The town of Gilbert's total payments to ASRS and PSPRS have skyrocketed from about $1 million per year in 2001 to almost $18 million in 2018.
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Infographic: 3 Rules to Help School Finance Systems Impacted By Coronavirus
COVID-19 is prompting a harsh new fiscal reality for states and school districts. Here's what state and school district officials can do to adapt.
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Rolling Back Regulations to Combat COVID-19 Should Be Just the Start
Once the coronavirus pandemic passes, lawmakers should permanently eliminate many of the unnecessary regulations they've temporarily suspended.
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Hawaii’s Successful Experience With Weighted-Student Formula Has Improved Funding Equity
The weighted-student formula has provided a much more equitable, responsive and transparent way to fund Hawaiian schools.
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Examining the City of Prescott and How Pension Debt Drives Rising Costs for Arizona Municipal Governments
Prescott's total payments to ASRS and PSPRS have skyrocketed from about half a million dollars per year in 2001 to more than $7 million in 2018.
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Bill Expanding School Choice in Florida Is a Big Win for Florida’s Students and Families
The greatest accountability measure for any school is that parents and kids can “vote with their feet” by taking all their scholarship dollars to another school if they’re dissatisfied.
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Why States Should Scrap Their Online E-cigarette Bans During Coronavirus Pandemic
Eliminating online sales bans would help keep vape shops in business and prevent unnecessary trips outside of the home, assisting with social distancing.
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State Aid in Coronavirus Stimulus Spending Bill Greatly Favors Low Population States
Wyoming is slated to receive $2,160 per capita while New York and Washington state, two of the states that have been hit most heavily by the coronavirus pandemic, look like they'll receive just $389 per capita.
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Coronavirus May Deliver the Final Blow to Overrated Commercial Real Estate Deals
More than half of the mortgages in CMBS deals are on offices, hotels and retail buildings— three categories especially hard hit by shelter-in-place orders issued during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Looking For Permanent Process Solutions to Help Address the National Debt Crisis
"Our Constitution says very little, almost nothing, about how federal officials must care for or process our money."
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To Help Fight Coronavirus, States Can Eliminate Alcohol Rules Preventing Homemade Hand Sanitizer
Many states prohibit the sale of grain alcohol in concentrations high enough for homemade alcohol-based hand sanitizers to be effective.
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Mass Transit Stimulus Spending Should Be Limited to Providing Operations, Focus on Transit-Dependent Riders
Federal lawmakers should specify a ceiling for total stimulus aid and provide monthly payments based on a calculation of the passenger revenue lost and the extra cleaning costs incurred by each system.
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Proposal to Ban All Tobacco Products Wouldn’t Help New York Fight Coronavirus
The scientific case for the prohibition of all tobacco products in response to the coronavirus pandemic remains weak, and for e-cigarettes it is non-existent.
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COVID-19’s Economic Fallout Wreaks Havoc on Education Budgets
Policymakers and schools need to start preparing now for a new fiscal reality.
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President Trump and Federal Agencies Botched Initial Coronavirus Response — Bailouts Will Make It Worse
Private businesses should not be operating under the premise that in a financial downturn, or even a crisis, they’ll quickly be bailed out by the federal government.
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How California’s Schools Can Best Adapt During Coronavirus Pandemic
Whether we like it or not, California’s homeschool population essentially jumped from 2.4 percent to almost 100 percent of school-aged children in a matter of weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic.
