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Sound Pension Reform Helps States Keep the Promise
Recently, ALEC published Unaccountable and Unaffordable, 7th Edition, the annual report analyzing unfunded pension liabilities for every state, as part of ALEC portfolio of 50 years of Trusted…
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Re-Entry Reform is Sweeping the States
2023 has been an extremely active year on the criminal justice reform landscape, particularly with respect to recidivism reduction. Several successful efforts have made their way through the states, including…
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ALEC’s Pursuit of Education Freedom
The final video in the ALEC 50th anniversary video series, “Education Opportunity,” features two ALEC Board Members, West Virginia Senator Patricia Rucker and Iowa Speaker Pro Tem John…
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State Legislator of the Month, August 2023: Utah Rep. Karianne Lisonbee
We are honored to shine a spotlight on a legislator whose dedication to the principles of limited government, free markets and federalism has made a substantial impact on Utah. The…
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Where’s the Beef? Regulatory Barriers to Entry and Competition in Meat Processing: Joe Trotter
Joe Trotter, ALEC’s Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Director, testified in front of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on the importance of allowing states to set their own inspection…
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2023: The Year of Universal Education Freedom
2023 has been another massive success for American students and families as more states implement programs designed to empower parents and provide more choice in education. In all, 8 different…
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ALEC’s Impact on Criminal Justice Reform
Looking for Episode 3: ALEC’s Success on Civil Justice Reform? Find it here. The fourth episode in the ALEC 50th anniversary video series, “Criminal Justice Reform,”…
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New State Laws Keeping Politics Out of Pensions
The states are setting the tone for how to protect retirement plans from politically motivated investment strategies. In April, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Montana Governor Greg Gianforte both…
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TikTok Update: More State Legislative Activity and Legal Challenges
In total, at least 36 states have taken steps to restrict TikTok in some form. Six states in total have taken legislative action on TikTok, eight state governors signed executive…
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College Alumni are Defending Free Speech on Campus
Over the past couple of years, alumni groups have formed across the country with the goal of protecting free speech. The Alumni Free Speech Alliance, a network of alumni…
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Iowa Adds Truth and Transparency to Property Taxes
Iowa lawmakers and Governor Kim Reynolds delivered a bipartisan win for Iowans this week, as Truth-in-Taxation became the latest free market policy solution signed into law in the Hawkeye…
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A Victory For South Carolina Patients
Patients scored a major victory yesterday in South Carolina, where the House of Representatives voted unanimously for repeal of its certificate of need law. The vote is consistent with…
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Protecting Workers in the Free State of Florida
ALEC will be hosting its 50th Annual Meeting in Florida later this year, and with it will come the quintessential ALEC forums for exchanging and debating solid state policy…
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CalPERS and CalSTRS Know Fossil Fuel Divestment is a Recipe for Disaster
In the Golden State, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) are waking up to the fact that divestment hurts…
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Florida Achieves Major Lawsuit Reform
Last month, Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a comprehensive lawsuit reform package for the state of Florida. The bill, HB 837, went into effect on March 24th, 2023,…
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What’s Next for TikTok in the U.S.: A Look at the State and Federal Policy Landscape
TikTok, the popular social media app owned by Chinese mega conglomerate ByteDance, is increasingly impossible to escape in the American zeitgeist. The app is on a meteoric rise in the…
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Universal Recognition on its Way to Becoming All-American?
Times are stressful for American working families. The second and third largest bank failures in American history just occurred, interest rates might be increasing even higher, and inflation…
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These States are Supporting New Entrepreneurs
In his State of the Union address, President Biden stated that “over the last two years, a record 10 million Americans applied to start a new small business.” While…
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ALEC’s Labor of Love: A History of Championing Worker Freedom
With a workforce as diverse as America’s, labor policy is no simple issue area, and for 50 years ALEC has been an integral part of the effort to champion free…
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Reforms to Help Housing Affordability
What is next for America’s housing market? On the one hand, unemployment is down to a 53-year low, and 500,000 jobs were added in January. On the other…