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Analysis of Texas Senate Bill 12 and Its Impacts on Texas Teacher Pension Solvency
The cost of the pension plan is proving to be more expensive than previously anticipated, and higher annual contributions will be necessary to fully fund the retirement benefits that have been promised to Texas teachers.
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Birmingham’s Pension Woes Continue to Compound
Fitch Ratings downgraded Birmingham's issuer default rating and general obligation bond ratings to A+ from AA-.
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There’s a Simple Fix to Reduce California’s Shortage of Doctors and Health Care Providers
By making more use of doctors trained elsewhere, along with nurse practitioners and telemedicine, policymakers could increase the supply of primary health care.
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Miami Toll Legislation Could Hurt State Highway Funding
Those who favor cutting back on tolling ignore a looming threat to highway funding.
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Learning from Rhode Island’s Pension Reform: What Did it Teach Us About Worker Retention?
If reduced pension benefits prompted highly-skilled workers to separate sooner and choose other employment options, it would be an issue for policymakers to evaluate among the potential tradeoffs.
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Nevada’s Marijuana Banking Bill Is Not a Viable Solution for Businesses
Banking actions that most entrepreneurs take for granted become incredibly difficult and dangerous when it all must be done by physically moving cash.
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Florida Needs to Take Back Control, Approve More Cell Phone Providers for Lifeline Program
Outsourcing the approval process to the federal government has been a failure.
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USAFacts Offers a Bleak Financial Outlook for US Governments
Improvements in financial reporting technology may be needed to make Americans aware of the full extent of the financial troubles facing governments at all levels.
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Aviation Policy News #163
Remote towers reaching new levels, French government to privatize Aeroports de Paris, and more.
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Rebuilding and Modernizing Interstates Means Changing the Way We Pay For Them
Everyone warns America’s highways are crumbling. The best way to save them is shifting from gas taxes to per mile charges.
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Medicare for All Means Innovation for None
Public health care has little incentive to introduce new technologies and prolong life.
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Examining Sen. Kamala Harris’ Plan to Give All Teachers Raises
There also needs to be a discussion about pension debt and the real culprits behind stagnant teacher salaries.
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Amicus Brief: Supreme Court Should Hear Montana School Choice Case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue
This court should grant the petition to provide legal clarity for the many states seeking to increase educational opportunities for all children.
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A Historical Review of State Efforts and Authority To Regulate Cannabis
The history of cannabis regulation begins largely in California during the Gold Rush.
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Using Managed Lanes in Metro Areas to Fund the Reconstruction of Interstate Highways
Value-added tolling is the most realistic way to pay for the needed rebuilding of Interstate highways.
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Amicus Brief: Law Enforcement, Without a Warrant, Strip-Searched and Photographed a Four-Year-Old Girl at Her Preschool
Qualified immunity denies justice to victims of unconstitutional misconduct. It imposes cost-prohibitive burdens on civil-rights litigants. And it harms the very public officials it seeks to protect.
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Nicotine and Harm Reduction Newsletter – April 2019
The vapor industry was subjected to an onslaught of attacks on both the federal and state level in the first quarter of 2019.
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The Case for Toll-Financed Interstate Replacement
Addressing both the need to rebuild Interstates and the need to begin the transition from per-gallon fuel taxes to per-mile highway user charges.
