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The Challenge of Comparing Public and Private Correctional Costs
Can privately operated prisons reduce costs without compromising performance?
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The Environmental Protection Agency and Boiler MACT Regulation
EPA boiler rules should reflect the real world
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The Hayek Rule
A new monetary policy framework for the 21st century
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The Next California Budget
Eliminating California's deficit and fixing the budget process through "Budgeting for Outcomes"
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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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Designing an optimized retirement plan for today’s state and local government employees
This study presents a new retirement plan design, the Personal Retirement Optimization Plan, or PRO Plan, which is built on a defined-contribution foundation but designed to operate more like a traditional pension.
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Defined Contribution Plans: Best Practices in Design and Utilization
If properly designed, defined contribution plans can meet the employee retirement needs of today’s evolving and dynamic public sector workforce.
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Enterprising Roads: Improving the Governance of America’s Highways
Roads should be managed by independent enterprises, with a clear mission of providing service to customers.
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Ranking U.S. Metropolitan Areas on the Economic Freedom Index
Amongst America’s largest metro areas, Houston, Jacksonville, Tampa, Richmond and Dallas-Fort Worth have the most economic freedom. Riverside, Rochester, Buffalo, New York and Cleveland have the least.
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An Argument for Equal Marriage
Marriage laws should allow people to shape their lives as they wish
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Driver’s License Suspension Reform: The Right Road For Michigan
Michigan should narrow the type of offenses that can result in a driver’s license suspension to traffic safety crimes and end its draconian fines and fees.
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Marijuana Forgiveness Remedies
Policymakers rethinking pot prohibition should be able to build a better road map for implementing forgiveness remedies for past marijuana crimes.
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What Is Kratom and What Should We Do About It?
Kratom has life-saving potential as an opioid substitute, demonstrates promise as a therapy for opioid withdrawal, and has been shown to be remarkably safe even among heavy users.
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Comparing Public and Private Bus Transit Services
A Study of the Los Angeles Foothill Transit Zone
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Voluntary Energy Standards: ISO 50001 and the Superior Energy Standard
The extremely small number of certified sites is evidence that either the standards are not suitable for the vast majority of U.S. companies, or that the way they have been promoted is unsuitable.
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How Burdensome Regulation Obstructs Hunger Relief
This brief offers recommendations to help solve hunger by reforming current regulatory regimes that block the diffusion of beneficial technologies.