The median home sales price climbed 40 percent during the last five years, from $215,000 to $301,500. Meanwhile, BBC Research and Consulting reckons that up to 40,000 low-income households lacked access to rental options within their price range.
Senior Policy Analyst Kathleen Hunker testifies on the hotel occupancy tax before the City of Austin Economic Opportunity Committee
During the Great Recession and since, Texas has been America’s jobs engine, creating 34 percent of all U.S. civilian jobs during the last eight years in a state with less than 10 percent of the nation’s population.
However, no evidence suggests Texas roads are safer. In fact, DUI-related driving crashes (a violation hit hard by DRP fines) resulting in death have increased since the program's inception.
Since the 2004-05 budget, the overall budget has increased 69 percent, compared with an estimated 55 percent increase in the key measure.
Are city governments suffocating ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft with too much red tape? That was one of the many questions asked at last week’s local government forum, Is Big Government Driving Out Ridesharing?, featuring Senator Don Huffines, Austin City Councilmember Ellen Troxclair, the R Street Institute’s Josiah Neeley, and the Travis County Democratic Party’s Joe Deshotel.
Hon. Doug Domenech discusses the real history of Earth Day on The Blaze's Jacki Daily Show.
Moody’s pegged state and local governments’ unfunded liabilities at roughly the same amount, bringing the total U.S. pension shortfall to 40% of GDP.
To have the best economic environment for opportunities to prosper and higher standards of living, regulation at the federal and state levels should be dramatically scaled back. The cost of every regulation must be considered, and those that have a higher cost than benefit should be scrutinized and ultimately not imposed. This is how we can begin to reclaim the American Dream for far too many who feel as though it is out of reach.
No surprise, another study finds that 27.3 percent of student borrowers are now in default on their loans.
It’s time for parents to know the actual tuition of public schools and have the choice to meet their child’s needs through education saving accounts.
Information technology has made the world new, and the new world has brought with it a new education-delivery system: online learning.