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On the California Ballot: A $15 Billion School Bond, Plus Another $17 Billion in Borrowing at the Local Level
California's school and community college districts issued $125 billion in general obligation bonds from 1984 to 2019.
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States Handing Out Economic Development Incentives Aren’t Getting Results
Taxpayers deserve to know exactly how much is being spent by governments on incentive and tax break programs and what the return on that public investment exactly is.
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Debate Over Local Control and State Preemption Heats Up on Short-Term Rentals
With local governments restricting short-term rentals due to complaints from some of their residents, some homeowners are looking to the state to protect their property rights.
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What States Can Learn From California’s Expensive Financial Information System Failures
States possess vast amounts of financial and non-financial data, and the best way forward to manage all types of data would be to implement an Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) data policy.
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Working Paper — School Sector and Climate: Evidence from New York
Public charter schools tended to report fewer school climate problems than district-run public schools in New York state in the 2017-18 school year.
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Aviation Policy News: Attack on Space-Based ADS-B Service, Challenges to Urban Air Mobility, and More
Plus: The shift from a public to commercial airport model, aviation’s other climate change problem, and more.
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Detroit Continues to Drag Its Feet on Legalized Marijuana
The Detroit City Council should lean heavily on the already extensive regulation developed by state authorities and seek to pass a simple regulatory framework to license adult-use marijuana.
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The Impacts of Proposed Changes to Georgia’s Teacher Retirement System
Understanding the bills’ short-term costs along with their potential long-term benefits is critical to fully evaluating these reforms.
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PERA’s Redesigned COLA Provides Retirees Inflation Protection and Improved Sustainability
Senate Bill 72 aligns the New Mexico Public Employees Retirement Association’s benefit adjustments with other fully-funded state pension plans and provides robust protections for retirees against inflation.
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The Misguided Efforts to Derail Maryland’s I-270 and I-495 Toll Projects
Drivers would get congestion relief, transit riders would get new high-quality bus service, and taxpayers wouldn't have to fund the projects.
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Why Andrew Yang and Elon Musk Are Wrong About the Urgent Need for Universal Basic Income
Just as the industrial revolution simultaneously eliminated agricultural jobs and created factory jobs, future economic transformations may well create new occupations we have yet to imagine.
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Greater Accountability and Public-Private Partnerships Could Reduce Sewage Spills in Florida
Florida’s economy depends on its environmental resources, but a shocking number of sewage spills over the last decade are contributing to toxic algae blooms across the state.
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How Ohio’s Proposed Cost-of-Living Adjustments Would Impact OPERS’ Unfunded Liabilities
The proposed reforms to the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System will likely to fall short of the goal of maintaining a secure retirement option for Ohio’s workers.
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The CDC Is to Blame For More Americans Than Ever Being Misinformed About Vaping and E-Cigarettes
"Restricting access and appeal among less harmful vaping products out of an abundance of caution while leaving deadly combustible products on the market does not protect public health."
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California Would Benefit If Gov. Newsom Continues to Push for Highway Improvements
There’s no way to sugarcoat it: California’s infrastructure is in bad shape.
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School Choice Is Disrupting Public School System—And That’s the Point
Blame school districts for the flaws they've allowed to fester, not parents for wanting better education for their kids.
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How Competition From Charter Schools May Change Schools’ Budgeting Decisions
This study's results suggest that school choice competition could improve outcomes for students who remain in traditional public schools by affecting the allocation of scarce education dollars.
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Key Stakeholders Agree It’s Time to Reform the New Mexico’s Largest Public Pension System
The proposed reforms to PERA are a great first step toward addressing the debt currently looming over the state budget.
