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Pension Reform Newsletter #30 (October 2016 edition)

By Leonard Gilroy
October 28, 2016

Pension Reform Newsletter – October 2016

Debate over public pension actuarial practices, pension obligation bond risks, teacher pensions, Dallas/Houston pension updates, and more

By Leonard Gilroy and Anthony Randazzo
October 28, 2016

The Fight Over English-Only Education Highlights the Need For School Choice

With a robust system of school choice, voters wouldn’t be forced to choose between educator autonomy and parental empowerment.

By Aaron Garth Smith
October 28, 2016

Pension Obligation Bonds Add Risk When Pension Funds Should be Decreasing Risk

States Consider Pension Obligation Bonds Despite Risk

By Brian Fojtik
October 27, 2016

2016 Reason Video Prize Finalists Announced

Reason Foundation will award $16,000 in video prizes at the Reason Media Awards on November 16 in New York City.

October 27, 2016

Teachers’ Pensions are Unaffordable for Teachers, Too

By Daniel Takash
October 26, 2016

Alaska Backs Down from Pension Obligation Bond Issuance

By Anthony Randazzo
October 26, 2016

Teachers Pensions are Unaffordable for Teachers, Too

October 26, 2016

Spotlight On Pension Fund Investment in Real Estate

By Anil Niraula
October 25, 2016

Report Challenges Standard Actuarial Practices in Public Pensions

By Truong Bui
October 25, 2016

Houstons Pension Problems: Causes and Solutions

By Truong Bui
October 24, 2016

Fitch Downgrades Dallas Bond Rating Over City Public Safety Pension Crisis

By Anil Niraula
October 24, 2016

Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, October 2016

October 21, 2016

Surface Transportation News #156

Upgrading major arterials for enhanced transit and the China syndrome

By Robert Poole
October 20, 2016

Legislators Push For Gas Tax Increase Instead of Cutting Bloated Bureaucracy

Plans have been introduced to raise $7.4 billion for transportation funding, mostly by raising the gas tax 17 cents a gallon.

By Baruch Feigenbaum
October 20, 2016

Enhanced Transit and Managed Arterials: A Win-Win Combination

Enhanced bus is more flexible than fixed-rail transit, and can offer comparable service levels when operated either on exclusive rights of way or on virtually exclusive rights of way that are kept uncongested by variable pricing.

By Robert Poole
October 20, 2016

New Policy Brief Discusses the Silence on the Federal Debt This Election Season

By Anthony Randazzo
October 19, 2016

America’s Debt and Deficit

Problems Still Seeking a Presidential Candidate’s Solution

By Anthony Randazzo and Marc Joffe
October 19, 2016