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Examining the causes of induced demand and the future of highway expansion
The most effective method for reducing induced demand is to implement pricing on highways.
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Transportation and climate change: Travel trends and GHG emissions
As the single largest domestic GHG emissions-producing sector, transportation is inevitably a focus of climate change mitigation initiatives.
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Transportation and climate change: Public transit
This report focuses primarily on operating energy intensiveness and transportation energy impacts as affected by public transportation’s influence on land use.
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What Factors Impact Public Pension Reform?
This brief analyzes several different factors that impact the likelihood of state policymakers making changes to a pension plan.
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The 2021 Texas Power Crisis: What Happened and What Can Be Done to Avoid Another One?
This report focuses on ERCOT and the electric power system because the power outages were the proximate cause of many hardships suffered during the failures.
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Refocusing U.S. welfare policy on economic opportunity
This study examines how the welfare system and banking, housing, criminal justice, and labor market regulations reduce and undermine opportunities for low-income Americans.
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An overview of Mississippi’s open enrollment policies
Mississippi gets a grade of "F" in Reason Foundation's report evaluating each state’s open enrollment laws in seven critical areas.
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An overview of Missouri’s open enrollment policies
Missouri gets a grade of "F" in Reason Foundation's report evaluating each state’s open enrollment laws in seven critical areas.
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An overview of Ohio’s open enrollment policies
Ohio gets a grade of "F" in Reason Foundation's report evaluating each state’s open enrollment laws in seven critical areas.
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Frequently asked questions on public school open enrollment
Public school open enrollment policies allow students to transfer to the public school of their choice.
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Public schools without boundaries: Ranking every state’s K-12 open enrollment policies
Only 11 states have mandatory open enrollment laws that allow students to easily transfer to other public schools and 26 states allow public schools to charge tuition to public school transfer students.
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Examining every state’s open enrollment policies
Six states, including Arizona and Florida, have implemented four out of five best practices for public school open enrollment, but 34 states have implemented one or none.
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Public schools without boundaries 2024
Study finds Arizona, Idaho, Oklahoma, Utah, and West Virginia have the best public school transfer and open enrollment laws.
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Transparent K-12 open enrollment data matters to parents, policymakers and taxpayers
A total of 16 states have strong statewide cross-district open enrollment laws, while 13 states have strong statewide within-district open enrollment laws.
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Federal law unconstitutionally prohibits medical marijuana users from possessing firearms
To prevent violations of the Second and Fifth Amendments, Congress should amend the Gun Control Act of 1968 to permit an exception for legal medical marijuana use.
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Examining excess deaths, years of lives lost, and other health consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic
"The non-COVID death toll that has accompanied the pandemic is large, well into six digits."
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What Kratom and delta-8 THC illustrate about substance regulation and criminalization
Substances like delta-8 and kratom are new entrants into what has become an “underground” market for “legal” buzzes and highs.
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State policy agenda for telehealth innovation
This report examines all 50 states in four key areas where there's an opportunity to maximize the potential of telehealth services.