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President Biden Says Drug Users Shouldn’t Go To Jail
“No one should go to jail for a drug offense, no one should go to jail for the use of a drug," President Joe Biden said.
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Californians Get to Vote on State’s Ban of Flavored Tobacco Products
In the Nov. 2022 election, Californians will decide whether to ban the sale of nearly all flavored tobacco products.
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Public School District Boundaries Are a Relic of The Past
State open enrollment education policies are in dire need of modernization.
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Most Local Governments’ Tax Revenues Haven’t Been Hit Hard By COVID-19 Pandemic
Local government revenues have largely remained stable during the COVID-19 pandemic due to their reliance on property tax revenue.
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Should Every Road Be a Complete Street?
Part five of Reason's Debatable Ideas series examines if complete streets are compatible with the high-speed, multi-modal mobility that major urban arterials are supposed to provide.
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Surface Transportation News: The Postal Service’s Electric Truck Problem, Traffic Bottlenecks Aren’t Being Fixed, and More
Plus: Transit options for the Bay Area, Maryland's managed lanes moving forward, exempting electric vehicles from congestion pricing, and more.
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A Not-So-Simulative COVID-19 Stimulus Bill
The costly, ill-timed and poorly targeted COVID relief measure now in Congress is unlikely to achieve its goals.
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Analysis of Texas School District Open Enrollment Data
Three percent of Texas students transferred to a traditional public school outside of their assigned school district in the 2018-2019 school year.
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New York State’s Other Post-Employment Benefit Problem
New York's public sector entities have more than $300 billion of unfunded other post-employment benefit liabilities.
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Debatable Ideas: Examining Key Transportation Issues, Myths and Misconceptions
In this series, Reason's transportation policy analysts examine key infrastructure issues, including common myths and misconceptions found in today's policy debates.
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COVID-19 Pandemic Continues to Show the Need for Funding Students, Not Systems
Parents across the country are increasingly tired of fights between school-district leaders and teachers’ unions over whether classrooms should open for in-person instruction.
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How State Policies Are Worsening The U.S. Doctor Shortage
The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the ways in which state policies that restrict out-of-state doctors from practicing within their borders hurt the nation's healthcare system.
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Pension Reform Newsletter: New Analysis of Other Post Employment Benefit Debt, Florida Considers Pension Reform, and More
Plus: Nebraska legislature looks at stress testing to help municipal pension plans, why paying down unfunded liabilities makes sense for taxpayers, and more.
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Privatization and Government Reform Newsletter: Funding Infrastructure, Retiree Health Care Liabilities, and More
Plus: State revenue figures exceed expectations during pandemic, executive order on private prisons, Mississippi privatization bills, and more.
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Do Texas Charter Schools Receive More Funding Than the State’s School Districts?
Charter schools receive about $813 less per pupil on average than traditional public schools, a discrepancy that is driven by facilities funding.
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The Relationship Between Public Pension Investments and Declining Bond Yields
As interest rates from fixed-income investments like corporate and government bonds decline, public pension plans have shifted assets away from these investment types.
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Montana Public Employee Retirement System (MPERS) Pension Solvency Analysis
The Montana Public Employee Retirement System public pension plan is only 74 percent funded.
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Express Bus and Express Lanes System for the San Francisco Bay Area
This study examines how a new approach to bus transit could assist in improving mobility in the region.
