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  • Best practices in cash balance plan design
    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.

    Policy Study by Truong Bui and Ryan Frost August 28, 2025

  • Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Renewable Portfolio Standards
    Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Renewable Portfolio Standards

    A Guide for Policymakers

    Policy Study by Tom Tanton and Julian Morris January 5, 2015

  • A Market-Based Approach From Australia Can Help Solve California’s Water Crisis
    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

    Policy Brief by Jeff Bennett and Julian Morris July 8, 2015

  • Developments in Criminal Justice and Corrections
    Developments in Criminal Justice and Corrections

    Criminal Justice and Corrections Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2014

    Policy Brief by Lauren Krisai, Leonard Gilroy and Alexander Volokh June 23, 2014

  • Developments in Criminal Justice and Corrections
    Developments in Criminal Justice and Corrections

    Criminal Justice and Corrections Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2015

    Policy Brief by Lauren Krisai and Leonard Gilroy May 14, 2015

  • How to Reform Illinois’ Nonviolent Class 4 Felony Statutes
    How to Reform Illinois’ Nonviolent Class 4 Felony Statutes

    Revising Illinois’ draconian sentencing rules for low-level, nonviolent drug possession and theft crimes.

    Policy Brief by Lauren Krisai May 11, 2016

  • How to Reform Illinois’ Nonviolent Class 4 Felony Statutes
    How to Reform Illinois’ Nonviolent Class 4 Felony Statutes

    Policy Brief by Lauren Krisai June 10, 2016

  • Developments in Criminal Justice and Corrections
    Developments in Criminal Justice and Corrections

    Criminal Justice and Corrections Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2016

    Policy Brief by Lauren Krisai and Leonard Gilroy November 21, 2016

  • Why Florida Needs a Safety Valve to Prevent Excessively Harsh Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Offenses
    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.

    Policy Brief by Lauren Krisai March 21, 2017

  • How to Reduce Florida’s Prison Population, Costs Without Compromising Public Safety
    How to Reduce Florida’s Prison Population, Costs Without Compromising Public Safety

    Eliminate mandatory minimum sentences and reform habitual offender and drug trafficking laws

    Policy Study by Lauren Krisai April 2, 2015

  • Frequently Asked Questions About Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine In Treating Covid-19
    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.

    FAQ by Teri Moore May 14, 2020

  • Addressing the Problem of Marijuana-Impaired Driving
    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.

    Policy Brief by Teri Moore May 25, 2018

  • Does Recreational Marijuana Legalization Contribute To Homelessness?
    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.

    Policy Brief by Teri Moore June 1, 2018

  • How Dangerous Is Marijuana?
    How Dangerous Is Marijuana?

    A health risk comparison of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana.

    Policy Brief by Teri Moore December 18, 2018

  • A Common Sense Approach to Marijuana-Impaired Driving
    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.

    Policy Study by Teri Moore and Adrian Moore January 22, 2019

  • Frequently Asked Questions About Heated Tobacco Products
    Frequently Asked Questions About Heated Tobacco Products

    On the balance of the available evidence, the dangers of impeding IQOS as a tool to help smokers quit far outstrips any possible threat it could pose to public health.

    FAQ by Guy Bentley September 24, 2019

  • Frequently asked questions about the FDA’s ban on menthol cigarettes
    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.

    FAQ by Guy Bentley April 27, 2022

  • A Question of Taste: The Public Health Case for E-Cigarette Flavors
    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.

    Policy Brief by Guy Bentley November 9, 2018

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