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Signing of Paris Climate Agreement Begins Today
Today (“International Mother Earth Day,” according to the United Nations), is the first day that participating nations can sign the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. All indications suggest…
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Freestanding Emergency Centers
Freestanding emergency centers (FECs) could transform emergency healthcare services in the United States. Due to overcrowded waiting rooms, long wait times, inefficient processes and below-average customer service, emergency room visits…
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VIDEO: Rich States, Poor States
Jonathan Williams, co-author of the report and vice president of the ALEC Center for State Fiscal Reform, discussed the new rankings with Mary Kissel on The Wall Street Journal Live.
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State Budgets
Smart budgeting is vital to a state’s financial health. The ALEC State Budget Reform Toolkit offers more than 20 policy ideas for addressing today’s shortfalls in a forthright manner,…
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Sentencing Juveniles as Adults is Not Always The Best Policy
The issue of presumptively treating 17-year-olds as adults in the criminal justice system has been discussed and debated in a number of states. Currently, 41 states presumptively treat 17-year-olds as…
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Cuba: A New Revolution
President Obama’s visit to the communist island this March represents a turning point for both nations. To move forward, each side is swallowing its own bitter pill. Obama correctly conceded…
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Rich States, Poor States: Maine Gets Richer, but Still Among the Poorest
In the recently-released ninth edition of the Rich States, Poor States: ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index, Maine earned its highest all-time rank of 38.
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ALEC Internship Program
The ALEC internship program is a great opportunity to work with state legislators from across the political spectrum in effort to advance proven, data-driven solutions within the states. We extend…
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Fighting Opioid Abuse Takes All of Us
Today, more people are dying of drug overdoses than car accidents. And you, our local officials, are seeing the statistic become reality in your communities and states. But where…
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House Judiciary Committee Unanimously Forwards the Email Privacy Act to the Full House
The Judiciary Committee of the United States House unanimously passed a substituted version of the Email Privacy Act. “Americans… are one step closer to having private and secure digital…
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Alumni Spotlight – Steve Bisenius
Steve Bisenius first became involved in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) shortly after he was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1976, as one of its youngest members. While…
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Don’t Follow the Left’s Upside Down Approach To Inversions
This month, a coalition of free market supporters sent Treasury Secretary Jack Lew a letter urging him to meaningfully address tax inversions, in which companies merge with foreign counterparts and headquarter abroad, by working with Congress to pass corporate tax reform. The Treasury’s actions so far – three rounds of new tax inversion regulations over the past 19 months – won’t solve the problem.