Archive: The State Factor
Archive: The State Factor
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Alternative Educator Preparation Programs: Where Does Your State Fall?
In the world today, many professions require some sort of credentialing or certification process in order to legally work in the field. Whether it be a government license, a private…
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The Latest Trends of Asset Forfeiture Transparency and Juvenile Justice
This State Factor examines trends across the states in Civil Asset Forfeiture reform, as well as in juvenile justice for the latest legislative sessions. It also examines the driving policy ideas…
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Overregulation Threatens Market-Driven Solutions in Dentistry
Access to efficient, affordable healthcare remains a significant challenge in the United States. Americans continue to experience an increase in the cost of care, a trend largely advanced by the…
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Lessons from Kansas: A Behind the Scenes Look at America’s Most Discussed Tax Reform Effort
Positioned in the center of the United States, Kansas has often served as a stand-in for the preferences of non-coastal America. Perhaps this unique position is why a 2012 tax…
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Price-Fixing Prescription Drugs Will Cost Us in Cures
Prescription drug pricing has been a recent topic of media scrutiny, and is said to be the reason for the high cost of healthcare in the United States. The result…
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The Pernicious Myth of the Underfunded American Education System
The myth that education is underfunded in the United States, where per-pupil spending is higher than most of the countries that outperform it on the PISA exam, is both wrongheaded…
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Educational Choice in 2016
Two new school choice programs were passed during the 2016 state legislative sessions: a voucher program in Maryland and a tax credit scholarship in South Dakota. Neither state had any…
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A Guide to State Laws Impacting UAS/UAV Operations: A Resource for Recreational, Non-Recreational and Commercial Drone Operators
Interest in Unmanned Aerial Systems and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UASs/UAVs or “drones”) has exploded in recent years. Some experts estimate nearly 2.8 million drones will be purchased in the United…
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The 21st Century Education Savings Accounts
School choice programs, from charter schools to voucher and tax credit scholarship programs, enjoy bipartisan support and are growing quickly across a majority of states. However, not all school choice…
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State Factor: Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Reform Saves States Money and Reduces Crime Rates
The United States has been experiencing increasingly high levels of incarceration, particularly over the last three decades. Several states have realized such levels are not sustainable and have been examining…
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State Factor: Optimizing the Abuse-deterrent Opioids Market
An estimated 15.7 million people aged 12 or older have used prescription drugs non-medically in the past year, according to Dr. Wayne Winegarden’s State Factor on the American opioid crisis.
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State Factor: Charitable Giving
State Factor: The Effect of State Taxes on Charitable Giving According to the new report, The Effect of State Taxes on Charitable Giving the following states donated the most to charity…
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Federally Managed Lands in the West
Federally Managed Lands in the West: The Economic and Environmental Implications for the States In the 12 continental states from Colorado west, more than 50 percent of the land is…
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Recidivism Reduction: Community-Based Supervision Alternatives to Incarceration
Recidivism Reduction: Community-Based Supervision Alternatives to Incarceration As a result of failed corrections practices, our criminal justice system has created a revolving door of offenders. More than 40 percent of…
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States are Engaging EPA on Clean Power Plan
On June 2, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made headlines by proposing a rule the agency calls the “Clean Power Plan.” This incredibly far-reaching regulation seeks to reduce…
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The Unseen Costs of Tax Cronyism: Favoritism and Foregone Growth
In The Unseen Costs of Tax Cronyism: Favoritism and Foregone Growth, the authors provide an overview on the nature and extent of tax cronyism in states’ tax codes…
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Raising the Minimum Wage: The Effects on Employment, Businesses and Consumers
Increasing the minimum wage may seem like a tool to raise low-income workers out of poverty, but it inevitably hurts the very people policymakers intend to help. When the government…
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Criminalizing America – How Big Government Makes a Criminal of Every American
There are more than 1.5 million Americans under the supervision of state and federal correctional facilities, at a cost of more than $30,000 per prisoner every year. While some criminal…
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Lowering Costs in Water Infrastructure through Procurement Reform
A Strategy for State Governments Every year in North America, 300,000 water main breaks threaten the safety of our communities and place enormous financial burdens on states already struggling to…
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