Publications & Studies
Publications (page 6)
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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…
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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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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,…
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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…
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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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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…
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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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The States’ Broadband Plan
State lawmakers face difficult economic challenges. While many Americans worry that job and unemployment numbers remain stubbornly high, citizens look to their elected representatives in the state and federal government…
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Restoring the Balance of Power
Thirteen Proposals to Return Sovereignty to the States Restoring the Balance of Power contains 13 proposals for state legislators to return sovereignty to the states. We are witnessing an unprecedented…
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Natural Resource Reserve
The Energy, Environment & Agriculture (EEA) Task Force has designed a summary policy guide to make relevant model policies and model resolutions more accessible to ALEC member legislators. Since…
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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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Lawsuit Reform for Competitive State Economies
The publication focuses on fifteen key areas in which state legislators can craft meaningful reforms designed to make their state’s civil justice systems fairer, more predictable, and more conducive to…
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19th Report Card on American Education
State Education Rankings The 19th edition of the Report Card on American Education is a comprehensive overview of educational achievement levels, focusing on performance and gains for low-income students, in…
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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…