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Follow The Jobs: Assessing Florida’s Business Incentives Programs
The incentives programs, despite spending billions of taxpayer dollars, have not produced any meaningful or measurable positive economic outcomes for Floridians.
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Can Interstate Tolling Be Politically Feasible?
States can use toll revenue to modernize and update Interstate highways if the program puts the interest of highway users—motorists and truckers—first.
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Climate Change, Catastrophe, Regulation and the Social Cost of Carbon
Existing federal regulations predicated on a positive SCC should be re-evaluated, with the appropriate comparator being regulations that specifically address any co-benefits identified.
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Unfinished Business: Despite Dodd-Frank, Credit Rating Agencies Remain the Financial System’s Weakest Link
The lenient ratings attracted excessive mortgage finance capital that exacerbated a home price bubble—and a wider asset price bubble.
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23rd Annual Highway Report
Ranking each state's highway system in 11 categories, including highway spending, pavement and bridge conditions, traffic congestion, and fatality rates.
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Availability Payment or Revenue-Risk Public-Private Partnership Concessions? Pros and Cons for Highway Infrastructure
While revenue-risk concessions are more advantageous and transfer more risk, a U.S. role for highway availability payment concession remains.
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Express Transit Lanes for Toll Roads
Express bus service combined with variable pricing in a new policy framework aimed at achieving significant, sustainable reductions in congestion in both the general lanes and the inside-shoulder lane.
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CAFE and ZEV Standards: Environmental Effects and Alternatives
Requiring manufacturers to comply with fuel economy standards, rather than using a more cost-effective alternative policy tool to achieve the same goals, likely harms the environment.
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Remote Air Traffic Control Towers: A Better Future for America’s Small Airports
Remote towers offer a proven alternative for the provision of air traffic services at low-activity airports.
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Air Traffic Control FAQs
21 Answers to Air Traffic Control Questions
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Opportunities and Regulatory Challenges for U.S. Marine Aquaculture Development
Aquaculture already produces half of the seafood that humans consume and that percentage continues to rise.
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Examining the Inspector General’s Report on Private Prisons
With Attorney General Jeff Sessions re-opening the door to private prisons, the agencies involved should look to improve monitoring and oversight in private prisons.
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Why Florida Needs a Safety Valve to Prevent Excessively Harsh Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Offenses
Extending a safety valve to oxycodone and hydrocodone trafficking offenses would allow the state to better prioritize public safety and save millions of taxpayer dollars each year.
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Federal Barriers to Private Capital Investment in U.S. Infrastructure
Private sector can help modernize and improve our roads and bridges
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