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The Changing Workplace And The New Self-Employed Economy
The gig, or sharing, economy was spurred by market demand and technological evolution, so free market solutions are uniquely positioned to address its challenges.
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To Privatize PREPA, Puerto Rico Needs a Coherent Plan
Public power has clearly failed Puerto Rico. But to successfully privatize, the Commonwealth has to offer prospective concessionaires a clear path to profitability without totally stiffing PREPA bondholders.
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Gambling With Taxpayer Money and Losing: Florida’s Business Incentives Program
Incentive programs fail because they do not account for the fact that the firms are highly volatile and prone to failure.
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Why Florida’s Medical Marijuana Program Is Failing
Here’s a solution to fix implementation woes.
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A Truck-Friendly Approach to Tolling and Improving Highways
The most important provision is that the new tolls would be dedicated—by law—solely to the capital and operating costs of the rebuilt and modernized Interstates.
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Evaluating Solutions for Austin’s Billion Dollar Pension Crisis
COAERS’s fiscal deterioration is evident, and the causes are many, such as subpar investment returns, failing to properly anticipate how long workers would stay in the system, and mortality assumptions.
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Privatization & Government Reform Newsletter #33 (April 2018 edition)
Examining Puerto Rico's long-term fiscal plan, per-mile tolling, last-mile delivery services, and more.
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Driver’s License Suspension Reform: The Right Road For Michigan
Michigan should narrow the type of offenses that can result in a driver’s license suspension to traffic safety crimes and end its draconian fines and fees.
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Comparing the Safety Record of Delaware County’s Private Prison to Pennsylvania’s County-Run Prisons
The George W. Hill facility appears to operate much safer than an average in-house county prison.
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Does Occupational Licensing Really Improve Public Health and Safety?
Who benefits by limiting entry into a job field? Those already working in the field, as it shields them from competition.
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Los Angeles has the World’s Worst Traffic Congestion — Again
L.A. tops the list for gridlock for the sixth straight year.
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Dallas Police and Fire Pension Reforms See Early Success
Dallas is demonstrating the value in passing reforms that focus on core issues of governance and supplementary pension accounts.
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As It Recovers, Puerto Rico Needs More People and More Economic Freedom
Puerto Rico remains mired in bankruptcy: to escape, it will have to attract foreign immigrants and provide opportunities for them.
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Reason Introduces Interactive Visualization of Colorado’s Unfunded Pension Liability
The visualization uses annual PERA reports to break down the sources of the system’s added unfunded liabilities over the past 20 years.
