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Assessing the Financial Sustainability of Montana’s Largest Public Pension Systems
Despite investment markets showing historic gains, Montana’s public pension systems are experiencing an increase in unfunded liabilities and are likely to continue on their path to insolvency if needed technical adjustments aren't made.
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Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Renewable Portfolio Standards
A Guide for Policymakers
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A Market-Based Approach From Australia Can Help Solve California’s Water Crisis
Here are six fixes California can implement based on Australia's successful water allocation system reforms
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Developments in Criminal Justice and Corrections
Criminal Justice and Corrections Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2014
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Developments in Criminal Justice and Corrections
Criminal Justice and Corrections Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2015
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How to Reform Illinois’ Nonviolent Class 4 Felony Statutes
Revising Illinois’ draconian sentencing rules for low-level, nonviolent drug possession and theft crimes.
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Developments in Criminal Justice and Corrections
Criminal Justice and Corrections Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2016
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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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How to Reduce Florida’s Prison Population, Costs Without Compromising Public Safety
Eliminate mandatory minimum sentences and reform habitual offender and drug trafficking laws
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Frequently Asked Questions About Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine In Treating Covid-19
Our approaches to defeating the coronavirus should be given the greatest degree of regulatory freedom possible, leaving life and death treatment options to the physicians and their patients.
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Addressing the Problem of Marijuana-Impaired Driving
Drug recognition expert officers are in the best position to decide whether or not the driver is actively impaired by THC.
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Does Recreational Marijuana Legalization Contribute To Homelessness?
Some people have claimed that the recent increase in homelessness in Colorado and Washington is a consequence of a “green rush” to these states following legalization.
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A Common Sense Approach to Marijuana-Impaired Driving
Identifying policies that protect public safety without penalizing legal marijuana users who are sober at the time they drive.
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How Dangerous Is Marijuana?
A health risk comparison of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana.
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Study: Menthol cigarettes do not increase youth smoking more than other cigarettes
This study concludes that menthol cigarette availability does not pose a greater threat to public health than regular cigarette availability.
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Frequently asked questions about the FDA’s ban on menthol cigarettes
Here are some of the common questions about banning menthol cigarettes, the supposed evidence in support of a menthol cigarette ban, and a ban's possible consequences on public health and minority communities.
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A Question of Taste: The Public Health Case for E-Cigarette Flavors
Any policy that harms the exclusive makers of reduced-risk products such as e-cigarettes more than the makers of traditional cigarettes is not in the interests of public health.