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Best practices in cash balance plan design
A transition to a cash balance structure offers an opportunity to reset actuarial assumptions, enforce strict funding discipline, and improve stakeholder transparency.
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Why commercial space should lead the U.S. return to the moon
NASA should adapt the public-private partnership approach that it has used successfully for cargo and crew delivery to and from the International Space Station.
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Deepfakes, AI, and existing laws
A nuanced policy response can address the challenges of deepfakes while preserving the benefits of creative and expressive digital technologies.
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A legislative template for a modernized public sector defined contribution plan
This legislative template offers a policy-based plan design that synthesizes the best aspects of both defined benefit and defined contribution models.
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Consent requirements in comprehensive data privacy laws: Current practices and the path forward
Privacy laws worldwide increasingly rely on user consent as the primary mechanism for governing data collection, processing, and sharing.
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Low tech mileage-based user fee options
Mileage-based user fees are the most promising replacement for the fuel tax, which is no longer a sustainable way to fund roads and highways.
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Navigating port funding: Alternatives for reforming the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund
By addressing the existing inequities and compliance challenges, the U.S. can move toward a more equitable and effective funding mechanism for seaports.
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Annual Transportation Finance Report 2025
Infrastructure investors financed $77.5 billion worth of public-private partnership infrastructure transactions last year.
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Annual Surface Transportation Infrastructure Report 2025
It was a strong year for global public-private partnership activity with 43 surface transportation project closings worth $11.9 billion.
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Annual Aviation Infrastructure Report 2025
For the world overall, 45% of all passenger air traffic moves through airports with significant private investment.
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The truth about marijuana, mental illness, and violence: A review of Alex Berenson’s claims in ‘Tell Your Children’
Marijuana legalization appears to reduce the prevalence of violent crime and suicide.
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K-12 open enrollment by the numbers: 2025
Approximately 1.6 million students across 19 states use some form of open enrollment or public school transfer law to attend schools that are the right fit.
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Advancing remote air traffic control tower deployment in the United States
Remote/digital tower technology is in wide use in Europe and is rapidly expanding to Asia, Canada, and the Middle East.
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Drug decriminalization in Oregon: Measure 110’s impacts compared to other countries’ systems
A review of the data does not indicate any massive shift in offense rates or criminal behavior as a result of Measure 110.
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Transportation and climate change: Urban mobility in a climate-sensitive world
Transportation is undergoing its most profound changes in over half a century.
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Transportation and climate change: Public transit
This report focuses primarily on operating energy intensiveness and transportation energy impacts as affected by public transportation’s influence on land use.
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Interstates first: Why the transition to road user charges should begin with limited access highways
To begin the transition from gas taxes to per-mile charging, the U.S. needs a plan to address drivers' privacy, double taxation concerns, and the cost of collection.
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Transportation and climate change: Travel trends and GHG emissions
As the single largest domestic GHG emissions-producing sector, transportation is inevitably a focus of climate change mitigation initiatives.