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Don’t Look at $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage Out of Context
Before raising the minimum wage, Florida should examine the possible unintended consequences.
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California Overstates Bullet Train’s Climate Benefits
California's high-speed rail system would provide little or no reduction in overall greenhouse-gas emissions
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Pennsylvania Commission’s Recommendations For the State’s $60 Billion Pension Debt
"Without full annual funding, none of the following recommendations will be sufficient to ensure the availability of retirement benefits for future generations of public servants."
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Underfunded Pensions Heighten Risk of Service Insolvency for Local Governments in Illinois
Many local governments in the state face severe legacy cost pressures, but Chicago appears to be in a league of its own.
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Ranking U.S. Metropolitan Areas on the Economic Freedom Index
Amongst America’s largest metro areas, Houston, Jacksonville, Tampa, Richmond and Dallas-Fort Worth have the most economic freedom. Riverside, Rochester, Buffalo, New York and Cleveland have the least.
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Aviation Policy Newsletter #160
The Federal Shutdown's Impacts On Air Traffic Control
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Pension Reform Newsletter — January 2019
Fort Worth proposes pension reform, examining divestment activism in pension policy, and more.
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Washington’s HB 1521 Risks Reducing Competition and the Quality of Services Provided to Taxpayers
The bill contains provisions that would undo the progress Washington’s competitive sourcing program has made.
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California’s Other Fiscal Time Bomb; $187 Billion in OPEB Liabilities
California’s state and local agencies have $187 billion in unfunded retiree health care and other benefit liabilities.
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A Common Sense Approach to Marijuana-Impaired Driving
Identifying policies that protect public safety without penalizing legal marijuana users who are sober at the time they drive.
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Social Change Is Outside the Role of Public Pensions
Public pension plans can’t afford to undermine their fiduciary responsibilities in favor of making social or political statements.
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Residency Requirements for Marijuana Licensure
It is not clear that residency requirements reduce marijuana diversion or trafficking.
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Fitch Downgrades San Antonio Over Fiscal Inflexibility
The city was recently slapped with its first credit downgrade in a decade.
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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, January 2019
LAUSD strike, what millennial parents are getting right about their kids' educations, and more.
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Teachers’ Unions May Have to Put Students First, Rethink Opposition to Education Reforms
”What’s best for teachers is what’s best for kids” isn't always true.
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Fort Worth Takes Steps Toward Meaningful Pension Reform
The proposed changes could be a major step towards protecting the retirement security of Fort Worth’s police, fire, and other government workers.
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LAUSD Must Resist Mandates That Restrict Flexibility And Increase Inequality
LAUSD is facing a fiscal cliff.
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Reason Foundation’s Drug Policy Newsletter, January 2019
California’s cannabis black market is still thriving mostly due to onerous taxes and regulations in the legal market, Florida could be on a path to legalize recreational pot by 2020, and more.
