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How Transit Systems Can Provide Cost-Effective, High-Quality Paratransit Services
People with disabilities use transit seven times as much as the general population.
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Ranking how each state’s transportation funding system aligns with the users-pay/users-benefit principle
With direct users-pay funding sources, those who use the highways are the people paying for them.
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The impact of cash flow on public pensions
This policy brief uses the Montana Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) as a case study to illustrate the principles and importance of conducting a cash flow analysis of public pension plans.
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Best practices for pension debt amortization
Amortization policy is at the core of the successful elimination of pension debt.
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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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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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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.