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HHS Allowing Medicaid Work Requirements Will Help Many State Budgets
Elections have consequences. The old adage is normally invoked by the losing party when the winning party begins to implement…
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Vermont’s State of the State Address Highlights Difficult Hike Ahead
Vermont Governor Phil Scott (R.) exemplified non-partisan, economic realism during his state of the state address. Over the past decade,…
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Ensuring a Paper Trail for Elections
Most elections infrastructure in state and local governments are over a decade old. The aging electronic systems present unique threats…
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Williams Report: Holiday Recap
Budget Connecticut: Official projects Connecticut budget deficit at $224 million Kentucky: Governor Matt Bevin is ordering…
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New York State of State Response
In Governor Andrew Cuomo’s state of the state address, the governor…
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Wage Hikes Pose New Challenges for Business in 2018
As Americans look to an exciting new year and politicos start gearing up for mid-term elections, 18…
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Interior Highlights the Importance of Critical Minerals that Might Be in Your Christmas Gifts
If you are doing last minute Christmas shopping, chances are the gifts you are thinking about buying depend on minerals.
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Pensions, Incentives and Mismanagement
The most recent edition of Unaccountable, Unaffordable, the ALEC Center for State Fiscal Reform…
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ALEC Year in Review
2017 has been a great year for ALEC and its members. Take a look back through this slideshow and celebrate…
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ALEC Honors Dr. Arthur Laffer for Economic Excellence
Dr. Arthur Laffer, known for the Laffer Curve, was the first recipient of an ALEC award in his honor…
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Free Speech a Major Theme at ALEC’s States and Nation Policy Conference
Free speech was a major theme throughout this year’s ALEC States and Nation Policy Summit, so the Center to Protect…
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VIDEO: Under Attack: Donors Right to Privacy
People United for Privacy released a new video about a donor’s right to privacy. A financial contribution to an organization…
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Proactivity and Partnerships: The Keys to Defending Free Speech
“It’s very important to educate everybody because the free speech problem in this country isn’t just liberal students, it’s not just students generally, it’s the entire country. We have to understand that this is a cultural problem, not a party problem,” Emmett added.
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FCC Votes to Put the Consumer Back in Charge of the Government
Today’s vote at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) puts individual consumers back in charge of their internet experience. The vote…
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ALEC Recognizes its Stars
The American Legislative Exchange Council held its Annual Awards Dinner on December 7th in Nashville during the States and Nation…
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NAFTA Is All about the States
There is no better day to underscore the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement’s (NAFTA’s) importance to the nation and to…
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State Legislators’ Letter to Trump: Protectionism Threatens American Jobs
Read Letter to President State lawmakers from nine states signed a…
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Videos from States & Nation Policy Summit
The States and Nation Policy Summit took place from December 6-8 in Nashville, TN. Below are the videos from the…
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Taxpayers in Every State Bearing Costs of Medicaid Expansion
Was Medicaid expansion a fiscally prudent decision for state governments? As with most sweeping changes, it depends on whom you…
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19th Century Myth Threatens 21st Century Technology
Two centuries ago, a group of English textile workers known as the Luddites feared that new technologies of the industrial…