In this report, economists Stephen Moore, Arthur Laffer, and Donna Arduin describe the many factors that determine a state’s economic outlook. Fully a quarter of a state’s economic future is in the hands of its policymakers through their fiscal and regulatory policies. The authors rank Texas’ economic future according to their own State Competitive Environment Model and provide five policy recommendations that would boost Texas’ economic outlook from good to rosy.
Veritas April 2018
This issue of Veritas, the quarterly publication of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, features solutions to correctly measure poverty, introduces the Texas Prosperity Promise, explores whether free college is a good idea, a farewell from our CEO Brooke Rollins, an introduction of Lieutenant Colonel Allen West and the Booker T. Washington Initiative, and recaps the 2018 Policy Orientation and Visionaries Meeting.