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State Budget Solutions Responds to Connecticut Office of Policy and Management
On September 25, State Budget Solutions received an e-mail from the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management regarding steps taken to reduce the state's unfunded pension liability, as it was highlighted in "Promises Made, Promises Broken — The Betrayal of Pensioners and Taxpayers."
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Why work when welfare pays more?
The Cato Institute recently released an updated version of a decades-old study analyzing welfare benefits on a state-by-state basis. The…
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Medicaid Expansion Is the Price to Shift the Balance of Federalism
The debate over Medicaid expansion is as much about federalism and the issue of state control as it is about money-because these are ultimately one in the same.
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Privacy Concerns High as States Brace for Oct. 1st Exchange Enrollment
An employee for Minnesota’s new health exchange accidentally sent 2,400 Social Security numbers to an insurance broker earlier this…
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Texas vs. Maryland: Opposing Economic Strategies
Recently, Texas Governor Rick Perry and Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley had a verbal sparring match on CNN’s Crossfire. Both participants…
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Competition Leads to Cost-Savings in Water Infrastructure
Every year in North America, 300,000 water main breaks threaten the safety of our communities and place enormous financial burdens…
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How Wireless Spectrum Works Magic
Twenty years ago, the amount of electronics needed to power your smartphone would have filled a room. Today, everything from…
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The Death Tax – Taxes on Death
By: Will Freeland and Matt Portu It has been said that the only certainties in life are death and taxes.
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Government Threatens Montanans Privacy
By: Representative Daniel Zolnikov, House District 47, Billings Heights We take privacy for granted. Too often we mistakenly assume that…
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New Guide: Illinois Pension Reform is Possible
The American Legislative Exchange Council Center For State Fiscal Reform’s latest publication, Keeping the Promise: State Solutions for Government…
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Ronald Coase, Titan of Economic Thought, Passes Away at 102
Ronald Coase, an economist hailed as one of the top 10 greatest economic thinkers of all time, passed…
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Promises Made, Promises Broken – The Betrayal of Pensioners and Taxpayers
Comprehensive research into the funded status of state level defined benefit public pension plans reveals that public employee retirement promises…
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Alaska’s Bold Pension Reforms
By Nick Oswald Unfunded pension liabilities are becoming a greater and greater threat to state budgets. However, the American Legislative…
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Massachusetts Targets Tech Sector for Revenue
With a pool of tech-focused firms and a slew of graduates from top-notch universities like MIT and Harvard, it’s no…
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Myth of the Day: Real Household Income Has Not Grown in the Last 20 Years
One key tax myth that drives much of the desire for redistribution is the notion that real household income is…
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States Find Success Promoting Advanced Communications Technologies
By Jon Anzur The dynamic and fluid nature of the Internet has helped to ease communications, but those same characteristics…
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Michigan Pension Reform: A Model for the Nation
Americans have become accustomed to hearing about unfunded liabilities generated by the various federal entitlement programs, but many state and…
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Successful Pension Reform in Rhode Island
In ALEC’s latest publication, Keeping The Promise: State Solutions For Government Pension Reform, former State Senator Dan Liljenquist details…
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Private Sector Strives to Close Digital Divide
The Internet is no longer a luxury—it is essential. The Internet brings not only all the modern conveniences—the ease of…
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Medicaid Expansion: The Wrong Prescription for Virginia
Medicaid has fallen short of delivering proper health care to low income residents, and other expansions of Medicaid, done in a similar fashion to what is provided in the ACA, have fallen short of delivering the promised cost reductions.