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Using Incentives In Contracts Can Help Reduce the Health Care Problems In Jails
Well-designed private prison contracts can be used to reduce prison populations, provide quality health care to inmates, and produce education and training programs to help people re-enter society.
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New Mexico Needs Pension Reforms, Shared Sacrifice to Pay for Promised Retirement Benefits
The changes should provide $700 million in immediate savings and are projected to eliminate over $6 billion in unfunded liabilities.
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Evidence Shows Soda Taxes Have Not Reduced Obesity
As Washington, DC, proposes a soda tax, it is hard to overstate the abject failure of soda taxes to deliver on their promised benefits.
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CDC Started a Vaping Panic, Now It’s Admitting Vitamin E Acetate In Illegal Products Is to Blame
The deaths and lung illnesses being associated with vaping have nothing to do with legal nicotine e-cigarettes.
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Liberty University: A Cautionary Tale From a School Receiving $770 Million Annually From Government Sources
Reforming Liberty University doesn’t mean compromising its mission.
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Education Funding Should Follow Students to Their Schools
There is nearly $700 billion being spent on public education each year and parents, principals and teachers are best equipped to know what students need.
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Florida’s Highway Performance Shows Good Results at Very High Costs
Pavement and bridge conditions are good but in most of the spending categories, Florida tends to spend three to five times as much money as other states.
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San Francisco’s Latest Affordable Housing Bond Isn’t the Answer to the City’s Housing Crisis
Proposition A would spend $600 million to build 2,800 units of subsidized housing, which wouldn't make a dent in the problem.
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Pension Funds Should Focus on Funding Retirement Benefits, Not Politics
Pension boards prioritizing social change do a disservice to the workers expecting pensions and to the taxpayers responsible for unfunded pension debt.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Education Plan Would Hurt Charter Schools
The presidential candidate calls for more money for government-run schools and more regulations for private and charter schools.
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Why a Vaping Ban Would Be Terrible for Public Health
A vaping ban in California, or nationwide, would disastrously force legal adult vapers to buy products on the dangerous black market, increase vaping-related deaths and drive up traditional cigarette smoking rates.
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Pension Reform Newsletter
Bad investment return news for Texas and other states, why pension systems should avoid politically-motivated divestment policies, and more.
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Annual Privatization Report 2019: State Government
Updates on how states are using public-private partnerships in infrastructure, higher education, health care, and more.
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Infographic: How North Carolina School Finance Works
The state doles out staffing positions, which limits local control and causes inequities, and its funds come with strings attached.
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Where Do Gas Taxes Go? States Divert Fuel Taxes to Schools, Police, and Fish Barrier Removal
Five states are diverting over one-third of their total fuel tax revenue to non-road uses and an additional five states diverting at least one-quarter of their gas tax money.
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Public Pension Plans Are Seeing Low Investment Returns—It’s the New Normal
Whether through tax increases or diverting money from other programs, taxpayers get stuck with pension debt.
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Why We Should Stop Comparing High-Speed Rail In California and the US to China
Given the rule of law, the need to protect property and defend workers’ rights, high-speed rail projects in the United States will never achieve the ruthless efficiency of those in China. And that’s a good thing.
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The Teachers Retirement System of Texas Is Increasingly Relying on Risky Investments
TRS, an already-unhealthy pension plan with $46 billion in unfunded liabilities, needs to lower the rate of return it expects to generate from investments.
