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Testimony: The negative impacts of Columbus’ proposed ban on flavored tobacco
Flavor bans at the local level have little effect on public health and potentially disastrous consequences for communities of color.
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The UK’s margin call offers warning signs for public pension funds in the US
American policymakers can derive an important lesson from the current pension challenges in the United Kingdom.
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Surface Transportation News: Gas stations and electric vehicle charging, high-speed rail failure, and more
Plus: Smart roads' disappointing performance, induced demand, British toll roads, and more.
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Transportation departments embrace revenue-risk public-private partnerships
Revenue-risk P3s create a customer-provider relationship that is absent when the state builds and maintains a highway based on what the legislature decides.
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Public schools without boundaries 2022: Ranking every state’s open enrollment laws
Only 11 states have mandatory open enrollment laws that allow students to easily transfer to other public schools and 26 states allow public schools to charge tuition to public school transfer students.
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How text message reminders can help reduce technical parole and probation violations
This report's findings suggest that sending text message reminders for scheduled appointments could reduce canceled and missed parole and probation appointments by as much as 21% and 29%, respectively.
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The future of school choice: Funding all students through education savings accounts
Making education savings accounts the default funding mechanism for K-12 education and eliminating residential assignment would establish a robust education marketplace that is parent-driven and student-centered.
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Cannabis markets: Growth, innovation, and burdensome regulation
As the legal cannabis market matures in some states, the regulatory regime in place threatens to stifle cannabis producers and retailers.
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More portable retirement plans would help public employers attract and keep workers
Government employers need meet the demands of today's workers by introducing more portable retirement options and addressing the long vesting requirements of many plans.
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The SAFE-T Act’s impact on cash bail in Illinois
There is ample evidence that even short periods of pretrial detention can result in lost employment, severed social ties, a greater risk of conviction, and an increased likelihood of future criminal involvement.
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Funding Education Opportunity: Historic NAEP score declines, Census data on pandemic school spending, and more
Plus: How school choice debates are impacting gubernatorial races.
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The government’s bad idea to stop using single-use plastics
The Government Services Administration is considering phasing out single-use plastics from its supply chain and procurement processes.
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Privatization and Government Reform News: Impact of occupational licensing, ESG investing, and more
Plus: Outsourcing sewer and water operations, nuclear power for the Air Force, and more.
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Testimony: FDA regulation has preserved and protected the most dangerous form of nicotine use—smoking combustible cigarettes
Testimony before an expert panel convened as part of the Reagan-Udall Foundation's operational evaluation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products.
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Supreme Court hears pork producers’ challenge to unlawful California animal rights law
The U.S. Supreme Court heard recent arguments in a case that could have an enormous impact on the future of animal agriculture, the availability of meat, and the price consumers pay for it.
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Aviation Policy News: Benefits from airport privatization, the case for digital towers, and more
Plus: A common rate for Europe's air routes, Wisk plans autonomous eVTOL, and more.
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Webinar: The impacts of autonomous vehicle technology and role of public policy
Watch this video featuring Reason Foundation, Brookings Institution, and Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering on the future technological, socio-economic and public policy impacts of autonomous vehicles.
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Express lanes for electric vehicles should be a bigger part of Denver’s long-range transportation plan
With today’s large-scale decentralization of homes and jobs, it is increasingly difficult to serve large numbers of workers via mass transit.
