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Debt trends for state and local governments 2020-2022
This tool provides debt and spending insights for the 100 largest municipalities, counties and school districts in America and all 50 states for fiscal years 2020, 2021 and 2022.
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The New Workforce And How Transportation Planning And Policy Can Prepare For Them
Ten defining trends that should inform transportation policy and provide key approaches to transportation strategies.
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The Economic Problems Caused By Constraining Urban Growth
Urban growth boundaries effectively exert an extremely regressive tax upon cities, imposing far greater everyday costs on young or low-income residents, and first-time home buyers.
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The Transportation Advantages Of Dispersed City Structures Compared To Central Business District-Focused City Structures
The reasons for the evolution from central business district-focused, hub-and-spoke city structures to dispersed grid pattern structures.
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Will Marijuana Legalization Increase Hospitalizations And Emergency Room Visits?
Since marijuana legalization will likely increase the availability and convenience of consuming marijuana, there is concern that it will also increase health emergencies.
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Criminal Conviction Restrictions for Marijuana Licensing
Reducing conviction restrictions has the potential to help many people who have been impacted by the drug war.
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Occupational and Business Licensing of Recreational Marijuana
In order to allow new marijuana markets to flourish, occupational licensing must be constrained to the bare essentials.
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Residency Requirements for Marijuana Licensure
It is not clear that residency requirements reduce marijuana diversion or trafficking.
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Marijuana Business Insurance: Another Hurdle For Entrepreneurs
The current regulatory landscape has resulted in business owners who are hesitant to purchase insurance and few companies willing to provide insurance.
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Do Marijuana License Fees Help Keep the Black Market Going?
Marijuana fees are much higher than most alcohol license fees in each respective state.
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A Roadmap to Fix Arizona’s School Finance System
Arizona needs to adopt a system that more effectively attaches dollars to individual students based on their needs—regardless of property wealth and district boundaries.
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A Vision For Better School Funding in Arkansas
Arkansas should streamline education dollars into a weighted student formula and ensure that school operational decisions are left in the hands of local leaders.
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Weighted Student Formula Yearbook, 2019
Examining 20 school districts that have implemented backpack funding and the 10 school empowerment benchmarks they should aspire to meet.
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Answering Frequently Asked Questions About COVID-19 and Public Pensions
This resource, designed for state legislators and staff, will assist in answering crucial questions regarding how the pandemic and resulting market conditions have affected state sponsored public pension plans.
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Vital PPE: How To Increase Production and Distribution of Masks to Fight COVID-19
Part six of a series discussing strategies for combating and recovering from the coronavirus pandemic. The important role PPE has in containing the coronavirus and returning to pre-COVID-19 economic activities.
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: Effects on Opioid Prescribing and Drug Overdose Mortality
This study finds that Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs fail to reduce opioid overdoses and increase the use of black market opioids.
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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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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.