Solitary confinement, which segregates inmates in a 60-square-foot cell for up to 23 hours a day alone, has consistently shown to increase crime at a much greater cost to the taxpayer.
Kids can’t wait for our three- to five-year plans to succeed. Opportunity isn’t something you put on hold; either we have it or we’ve lost it. This is why parental choice is urgent. Rep. Bohac is absolutely correct when he concluded that school choice legislation must be the top priority for the next Texas Legislature.
Economists consider employment to be a lagging economic indicator.
Local property rights restrictions are a big driver of cost of living differences between states, while the degree of urbanization—oft-used by blue-state progressives to excuse the high cost of housing in the states they run—has no statistical effect.
Before the bankruptcy notices begin to arrive at their doors, many American colleges and universities need to look at where they can cut excess spending and pass these savings on to their students and faculty.
CO2 is an odorless, invisible, beneficial, and natural gas lacking any characteristics of a pollutant.
The final oral arguments for the current school finance litigation were heard before the Texas Supreme Court on September 1st 2015. This amicus brief explains how our state can make education more productive for Texas children.
Open access to government is a key to accountable representation. The International Budget Partnership (IBP) recently released a report ranking the U.S. fifth best in effective governance and transparency. In another report by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Frontier Group, Texas ranks 13th in budget transparency. Despite these high marks, there is clearly more work both could do to provide real-time, online access to budget documents.
The NBCC recently commissioned a study to evaluate the potential economic impact of the CPP on minority groups and found it would increase poverty in the black community by 23% and cause the loss of 7 million jobs for black Americans by 2035.
If a 'fair value' approach were applied that accounts for default risk, Ex-Im actually costs taxpayers $200 million a year.
While the Clean Power Plan will require a massive tax increase and regressive consumer rate hikes, it simultaneously will reduce the number of those employed and thus able to shoulder the new tax burden.
Generating capital gains means that money was used efficiently, benefiting not just the professional investment manager, but savers and the world.