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  • Tech Sector and Organizations Tackle the Nation’s Skills and Talent Deficit image

    Tech Sector and Organizations Tackle the Nation’s Skills and Talent Deficit

    The United States faces yet another deficit, but this one is not a simple matter of red ink in a government budget. U.S. companies urgently need thousands of skilled professionals…

  • Intellectual Property: The Innovation Economy’s Engine for Growth and Job Creation image

    Intellectual Property: The Innovation Economy’s Engine for Growth and Job Creation

    Intellectual Property (IP) is work or an invention resulting from creativity and innovation and can be used to define anything from a piece of art to the…

  • The Pension Reform Battle in California image

    The Pension Reform Battle in California

    The unfunded liabilities that stretch across states and municipalities has transformed from a major problem into a full blown crisis. Stockton, CA recently filed for bankruptcy along with…

  • ALEC works with lawmakers image

    ALEC works with lawmakers

    ALEC op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle this morning. “While Washington has become gridlocked and largely ineffective, the real legislative action is happening at the state level. Why? Because…

  • Inside ALEC Takes on Taxes image

    Inside ALEC Takes on Taxes

    “No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this…

  • Kansas Policy Institute: Debunking Junk Economics image

    Kansas Policy Institute: Debunking Junk Economics

    When looking at a state to state comparison, measurement is everything. Correct measures to test a state’s prosperity must be used to determine the actual economic growth (or non-growth) a…

  • New Study Shows State and Local Business Taxes on the Rise image

    New Study Shows State and Local Business Taxes on the Rise

    The Council on State Taxation (COST) recently released a study revealing that businesses paid a total of $644 billion in state and local taxes in fiscal year 2011…

  • An Expensive Year for Government image

    An Expensive Year for Government

    The Cost of Government Center (CGC) is part of the Americans for Tax Reform Foundation, a non-profit group that promotes flatter, simpler and lower taxes across the US. CGC…

  • 5th Circuit Upholds PPACA’s Limits on Physician-Owned Hospitals image

    5th Circuit Upholds PPACA’s Limits on Physician-Owned Hospitals

    Last Thursday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a  lawsuit challenging provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that effectively limit expansion of physician-owned hospitals. The…

  • Unfunded pension liability worse than expected image

    Unfunded pension liability worse than expected

    The issue of state pension sustainability has been a cause of major concern ever since the 2008 recession took a severe toll on pension investment portfolios. State Budget Solutions,…

  • A False Choice in Illinois image

    A False Choice in Illinois

    This Friday, the Illinois General Assembly will convene a one-day special session to address the state’s overwhelming pension liability.  Illinois faces a pension funding crisis of at least $83 billion…

  • Taxpayers Flee Maryland image

    Taxpayers Flee Maryland

    A recent study by the non-partisan group Change Maryland is garnering significant attention after finding more evidence that the state’s wealthiest residents are being driven out by excessive personal…

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    ALEC on CBS Evening News

    CBS Evening News interviewed ALEC’s Secretary Sen. Chip Rogers (GA) on free markets, limited government and ALEC’s sound policy solutions. Check out the clip below.

  • ALEC Weighs in on EPA’s Proposed Carbon Dioxide Standard image

    ALEC Weighs in on EPA’s Proposed Carbon Dioxide Standard

    On Monday June 25, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) submitted a public comment in opposition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed carbon dioxide standard for new…

  • Taxes Don’t Matter? The Return of Junk Economics image

    Taxes Don’t Matter? The Return of Junk Economics

    The Detroit News published an opinion editorial today from ALEC’s Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Director Jonathan Williams on state tax increases, debunking the myth that taxes don’t…

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    Deep Blue Pension Reform

    It’s no secret that America’s pensions are a major cause of fiscal stress across the country. According to a report last year from State Budget Solutions, most analysts agree that…

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    ALEC in Investor’s Business Daily

    ALEC And The Left’s War On Free Speech – Investors.com. “If you want an insight into today’s left, look at its multifront war against the American Legislative Exchange Council…

  • Rothschild: “4 reasons that ‘Rich States, Poor States’ matters” image

    Rothschild: “4 reasons that ‘Rich States, Poor States’ matters”

    By Dan Rothschild Dan Rothschild responded to yesterday’s release of ALEC’s ‘Rich States, Poor States’ report: “In a presidential election year, all eyes are focused on Washington and the…

  • States Should Avoid Federal Bailouts – Even Illinois Agrees image

    States Should Avoid Federal Bailouts – Even Illinois Agrees

    Certainly, the past decade has been a difficult one for states, and policymakers are searching for ways to stay afloat. Some pundits and policymakers now want the federal government to…

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    Improving Government Efficiency

    Members of the Commerce, Insurance, and Economic Development Task Force are dedicated to making government more efficient, cost-effective and competitive. States across the nation are looking for opportunities and…