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How to Refocus the Federal Share of Transit Funding So Maintenance Is Prioritized
Many of the mass transit systems across the country are in poor shape, in part because they direct money to costly new capital projects rather than needed maintenance.
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Examining Student Transfer Data in Texas
Three percent of Texas students transferred to a school outside of their home district in the 2018-19 school year.
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Congressional Testimony: The Long-Term Solvency of the Highway Trust Fund
Restoring the users-pay/users-benefit nature of the Highway Trust Fund would lead to a greater willingness by highway users to consider paying more for highways.
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Pension Plan Investments in Alternative Assets Pose Serious Risk to Taxpayers and Members
Alternative investments are the most challenging investments to value because they require assumptions about complex future cash flows and valuation multiples from future sales.
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Why Texas Conservatives Should Support Private Investment in Transportation
Private investment funds are ready, willing, and able to invest in U.S. infrastructure.
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Connecticut’s Infrastructure Problems Require Private Sector Help
Public-private partnerships would help the state build new infrastructure and ensure infrastructure assets stay in good condition.
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Florida’s $36 Billion Problem
Florida's growing pension debt is particularly bad news for other state spending areas like education and transportation.
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Right Now, Infrastructure Policy Should Focus on Fixing and Maintaining What We Have
Congress should focus on maintaining and modernizing existing infrastructure under a “fix it first” strategy.
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Why Congress Should Expand the Use of Private Activity Bonds For Infrastructure
For megaprojects, $12 billion in private activity bonds led to $45 billion in infrastructure project activity over the past 15 years.
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How to Effectively Fund Infrastructure Projects in the United States
Open the door to hundreds of billions in private capital from investors like public pension funds. That will help build infrastructure back better.
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The Beltway, I-270 Toll Projects Protect Taxpayers In Ways the Purple Line Deal Did Not
Maryland legislation could cause private infrastructure funds to shift their focus—and much-needed money for transportation megaprojects— to other states.
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Rethinking Interstate Rest Areas
This policy brief suggests that a 21st-century Interstate system should have state-of-the-art service plazas in addition to new pavement, improved bridges, and redesigned and rebuilt interchanges in many urban areas.
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Surface Transportation News: Commercial Services on Interstate Highways, Mileage Fees, Urban Transit After COVID-19, and More
Plus: What we don’t know about per-mile highway charges, overblown concerns about impact of automation on trucking jobs, monorail projects proposed, and more.
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What Factors Impact Public Pension Reform?
This brief analyzes several different factors that impact the likelihood of state policymakers making changes to a pension plan.
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Cannabis Freedom Alliance Launches, Aims to Spur Federal Legalization of Marijuana
The new organization will advocate for federal marijuana policy that helps all Americans achieve their full potential and limit the number of barriers that inhibit innovation and entrepreneurship in a free and open market.
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