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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.
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Don’t Overreact to a Couple of Accidents, Self-Driving Cars Can Save Thousands of Lives
Driverless cars don’t need to be perfect in order to be dramatically better than human drivers.
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Prohibition All Over Again — This Time, for Cigarettes
The Food and Drug Administration is taking the first step down a regulatory road that ends with prohibition.
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New Jersey Legislature Considering Education Savings Accounts
Education Savings Accounts are an excellent way to expand access to school choice for New Jersey families.
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Ride-Pooling Helps Consumers and Local Economies
“Ride-pooling” is one of the fastest growing areas of ridesharing and is part of sustainable transportation planning.
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Fuel Economy Standards Hurt Consumers and the Economy
Mileage-based user fees are better suited to address the pollution associated with vehicle use.
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UC Berkeley Study: Public Pension Costs Crowding Out Other Municipal Spending Priorities
Average city pension contributions increased 69 percent in real dollars over 10 years.
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California’s High Taxes and Regulation Mean Black Market for Marijuana is Still Appealing
Successful legalization of cannabis in California would crush black markets.
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Beware of Politicians Claiming Transit Projects Will Deliver Traffic Congestion Relief
The biggest reason transit does not reduce congestion is induced demand.
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Transit Agencies Can Generate Revenue By Selling Naming Rights
A city looking to sell transit naming rights can include lawful stipulations preventing companies from certain types of industries from engaging in the bidding process, but may run into free speech concerns.
