The deepest effect of the Left’s success at transforming teaching and learning into consciousness raising and hypersensitivity is missed if we dismiss it as merely in the service of graduating a fresh batch of “little snowflakes” every May.
Texans recognize that the problems at CPS are not with the hardworking people in the agency but are the natural result of legacy thinking, which trusts the state to institutionalize, engineer and manage families.
At last month’s pension reform summit (Rethinking Retirement: Solutions to Secure Texas’ Public Pension Plans), experts gathered from around the U.S. to share their insights and experiences dealing with one of the nation’s biggest issues: overpromised and underfunded public pension plans. Watch as our panel of experts discuss how they’re working hard to protect retirees...
Source: Economic Freedom of North America 2016 The Fraser Institute’s recently released annual report on economic freedom in North America shows that Texas continues as one of the most free jurisdictions in the nation and continent in 2014. Specifically, Texas retained its third place status in the U.S. for the sixth straight year while improving to fourth place...
The phrase "extortion racket" does not usually bring forth the image of a person in a white coat with a stethoscope. But here in the Lone Star State, health-care extortion is legal and hurts Texans both economically and medically.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is out with a new report today—Keeping the Promise: Getting Politics Out of Pensions—highlighting a big but little-known problem plaguing pension systems everywhere: political manipulation. An excerpt from the report: Unfortunately, many lawmakers and pension plan officials have other priorities besides doing what is best for workers. They see...
Last week there was an event in the nation’s capital where a merry band of warriors gathered to bring a dose of sanity to the too often hyperbolic discussion of climate change. While the discussion was thoroughly reasonable, the media had a hard time digesting it. Why? Because this contingent dared to counter decades of fake news often reported on climate and energy.
Last month’s pension summit (Rethinking Retirement: Solutions to Secure Texas’ Public Pension Plans) featured a panel of policymakers, practitioners, and academics seeking to answer the now very obvious question: Are pension problems brewing in the Lone Star State? Hear from our panel on the problems they see looming and some of solutions likely to come...
Last month, the Foundation hosted its first-ever full day summit on pension reform: Rethinking Retirement: Solutions to Secure Texas’ Public Pension Plans. And while the day was filled with a number of terrific panels and presentations, one of the event’s best discussions came as panelists delved into the defined benefit vs. defined contribution debate! Don’t miss it!
Last week, I published an opinion piece in the Austin American-Statesman titled: James Quintero: Texas’ $61 billion pension problem. As it turns out, that $61 billion figure is already out-of-date. Texas’ public pension problems no longer total $61 billion, but have instead grown to more than $63 billion according to new figures from the Pension...
Local government debt grew by several billion dollars this year, according to new data from the Texas Bond Review Board (BRB). According to the BRB, local debt service outstanding—or “the amount that is required to cover the repayment of principal and interest on a debt” held by political subdivisions—rose to more than $342 billion in...
Death by queueing is the inevitable result of government control of healthcare spending.