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Report Card on American Education: State Education Rankings

Education Report Card By Dr. Matthew Ladner The 20th edition of the Report Card on American Education is a comprehensive overview of educational achievement levels, focusing on performance and gains for low-income…

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…

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…

State of the States: An Analysis of the 2015 Governors’ Addresses

Each year, governors across the nation give a state-of-the-state address to communicate to their constituents what they did—or did not—accomplish this year. State of the States is an in-depth study…

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…

Innovate: Policy For the Future

Innovate: Policy For the Future Solutions to today’s problems come from creative thinking and a genuine plan of action. Government should operate in the 21st Century instead of the 1950s,…

State Tax Cut Roundup: 2014 Legislative Session

Fourteen states cut cut taxes in the 2014 legislative year, with a trend of traditionally blue states cutting taxes, according to a new report by the Center for State Fiscal…

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…

Rich States, Poor States, 7th Edition

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…

Reforming Net Metering: Providing a Bright and Equitable Future

Across the country, more and more customers are using rooftop solar panels and other small-scale, on-site power sources known as distributed generation (DG). To encourage the introduction of these systems…

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…