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Legislation in Nebraska Would Use Stress Testing to Assess Municipal Pension Sustainability
Stress testing would be a significant first step in identifying and addressing the challenges facing locally-run pension plans in Nebraska.
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Florida’s Latest Proposal to Expand Educational Freedom
The state legislature is considering a bill to expand education funding provided directly to students instead of systems.
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Does the Bay Area Need a New Subway Tunnel?
With uncertainty around travel patterns and a likely permanent increase in remote work, BART’s existing transbay tunnel is unlikely to return to its peak utilization in the years ahead.
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Challenges and Opportunities for Federal Automated Vehicle Policy
This policy brief aims to provide guidance to federal policymakers as they work to develop a pro-innovation national framework for automated vehicles.
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How the Biden Administration and Congress Can Pave the Path for Automated Vehicles
New policy brief lays out several steps federal policymakers can take to adapt the automotive regulatory apparatus to automated driving system technologies.
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Putting Milton Friedman’s Shareholder Primacy Ideas in Historical Context
If corporate executives eschew profits in pursuit of social responsibility, they are, in Friedman’s terms, “spending someone else's money for a general social interest.”
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Court Ruling On San Diego’s Public Pensions Demonstrates the Importance of Stakeholder Collaboration in Pension Reform
As a result of the ruling on Proposition B, San Diego will likely be required to offer a defined-benefit pension plan to new hires.
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Surface Transportation News: Truck Tolling, Transportation Planning During and After the Pandemic, and More
Plus: Making sense of highway fatality data during the COVID-19 pandemic, green bonds for transit, separate lanes for automated vehicles, and more.
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Maryland Should Reject Unfair and Ineffective Flavored Tobacco Ban
A ban on flavored tobacco products could negatively impact public health and criminal justice reforms in Maryland.
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A Better Way to Fund Students and Schools in Mississippi
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the need to update Mississippi’s K-12 education funding model, in particular the way that the state's school finance formula counts students.
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Examining Legislation to Expand Open Enrollment in Arizona
Arizona lawmakers are looking to remove barriers preventing public school students from attending a school outside of their residentially assigned school district as well as more easily find transportation to their school of choice.
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New Budget Reconciliation Resolution Portends Dangerous Debt Trends
The resolution predicts the national debt will reach $41 trillion in 2030.
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Lawmakers in 10 States Have Introduced Proposals to Legalize Marijuana This Year
Congress also appears ready to consider the decriminalization of marijuana at the federal level in 2021.
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How Do High-Occupancy Toll Lanes Benefit All Income Groups?
In part one, Reason's Debatable Ideas series examines common myths and concerns about HOT lanes and how drivers, transit riders, and cities can benefit from them.
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Can Increasing Highway Capacity Be Effective?
In part two, Reason's Debatable Ideas series examines claims about the induced demand and the so-called "iron law of freeway congestion."
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How to Make Public-Private Partnerships Part of a Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
Those hoping for a major infrastructure bill that expands the country's use of public-private partnerships (P3s) know it will require the next transportation bill to be truly bipartisan.
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A Tale of Two Space Launch Vehicles
The contrast between NASA and SpaceX launch vehicles is profound and points the way toward increased, and lower-cost, access to space.
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Initial 2020 Revenue Figures In Many States Are Higher Than Expected
The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t hurt state tax revenues as badly as had been predicted by many states and economists.
