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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.
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The Nanny State Comes For Menthol Cigarettes
History shows that banning a product such as menthol cigarettes disproportionately harms racial minorities as law enforcement targets the people buying and selling them.
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Amicus Brief: Torres v. Madrid
This Court should reverse the Tenth Circuit and return uniformity and predictability to the Court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.
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North Carolina Teachers’ and State Employees’ Retirement System: A Pension Solvency Analysis
Better risk management and more realistic plan assumptions can help ensure the state delivers the promised retirement benefits to its employees.
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The Economic Impacts of School Choice in Kentucky
This report finds that access to public charter schools in Louisville could provide the $138 million in economic benefits from higher lifetime earnings associated with increases in academic achievement.
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How Occupational Licensing Hurts Florida’s Most Vulnerable
Florida could remove barriers to employment by eliminating unnecessary licenses and reducing the requirements for widely licensed occupations.
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Congressional Hearing on E-Cigarettes Descends Into a Moral Panic
The hearing was littered with scientific inaccuracies and scaremongering.
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Surface Transportation News: Managed Lanes Are Booming, a War on Tolling, and P3 Benefits
Plus: dueling surface transportation outlines in Congress, what Americans actually pay for highways, and more.
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Proposed New Mexico PERA Board Restructuring Would Improve Expertise, Balance Representation Long-Term
The proposed legislation offers the promise of improving the experience and oversight capabilities of the Public Employees Retirement Association's governing board.
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As Congress Considers Vaping Ban, It Should Also Consider Public Health Benefits of E-Cigarettes
Hopefully, members of Congress and the industry officials will spend some time during the hearing examining the potential public health benefits e-cigarettes offer as a tool to help reduce the number of smokers in America.
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When Governments Go Insolvent, Should Others Absorb their Retirement Plans’ Costs and Risks?
San Francisco voters are being asked to assume liabilities that are not currently on the city’s books.
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For Real School Choice in Arkansas, the State’s Open Enrollment Policy Needs Reforming
An arbitrary cap on how many inter-district transfers a school district can allow in a year is holding back Arkansas' open enrollment policy.
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Marijuana Taxation and Black Market Crowd-Out
Tax rates that elevate the price of legal marijuana significantly above black market prices prolong the presence of illegal markets and reduce government tax receipts.
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Does Menthol Cigarette Distribution Affect Child or Adult Cigarette Use?
If the strength of the association between menthol cigarettes and increased youth initiation is as strong as tobacco control activists suggest, there should be signs of it in the national data.
