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Local Governments Beware: Pension Obligation Bonds Are a Risky Response to Rising CalPERS Bills
Recent stock market volatility is a warning sign to local agencies considering pension obligation bonds.
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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, December 2018
Empowering Atlanta's schools, updating Nevada's school finance system, claims about charter schools and more.
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Examining What Went Wrong With the Student-Based Budgeting Pilot Program
Overly rigid implementation played a part in setting back the Every Student Succeeds Act's student-based budgeting pilot program.
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Surface Transportation Newsletter #182
Progress on toll-financed Interstate reconstruction, insuring automated vehicles, examining how Uber and Lyft impact traffic fatalities, and more.
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Teacher Pension Debt Undermines Public Education in Georgia
Georgia’s political leaders owe it to parents and students to resolve the pension system’s solvency challenges.
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Cars, Mass Transit and the Efforts to Reduce Emissions
Investments in mass transit ought to be more selective and focused on expanding and maintaining ridership in areas with high rates of transit ridership by operating more heavily during times of greater demand.
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Jitneys Could Help Provide a Critical Mass Transit Options in Miami
The city has a successful low-cost private jitney industry frequented by immigrants and minorities that could help increase transit ridership rates at a minimal cost to taxpayers.
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Nicotine and Harm Reduction Newsletter – November 2018
The Food and Drug Administration announced it would be taking action to combat the alleged epidemic of youth vaping.
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The Iowa Public Employees Retirement System Needs More Than a Year of Solid Returns
IPERS’ unfunded accrued liability grew from $441 million in fiscal year 2001 to $6.97 billion in fiscal year 2017.
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Pension Reform Newsletter — November 2018
Michigan looks to bolster retirement security for police, privatization doesn’t orphan public pensions, and more.
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New Research Examines Why Public Pension Funding Gaps Are Widening
The financial gap between poorly- and well-funded public pension plans is growing.
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Will Drug Cartels Miss Jeff Sessions?
The last thing cartels want is less drug enforcement.
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How to Make Legal Pot Work for Michigan
Michigan voters took a great step toward ending the failed war on drugs.
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Stop Trying to Claim Charter Schools ‘Steal’ Money from Traditional Public Schools
Charters shouldn’t be blamed for “stealing” public schools’ funding when parents are just choosing what’s best for their kids.
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Ballot Measure That Would Have Expanded Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Program Defeated
Proposition 305 would have extended eligibility for the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Program to all K-12 students in the state over the next four years.
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Privatization Doesn’t Orphan Public Pension Systems
Members leaving a pension plan add nothing to a plan’s unfunded liabilities since no additional pension “liability” can accrue for work not undertaken.
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Public-Private Resources Address Big Homelessness Problem With Tiny Solution
State and local governments are using tiny homes to serve low income and homeless populations.
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Changing Course: Driver’s License Suspension in Florida
Why the state should stop suspending licenses for offenses that are unrelated to traffic safety.
