Forcing the states to accept an entirely new program or lose the largest single source of funds in the state budget was, in Chief Justice John Roberts’s memorable phrase, a 'gun to the head.'
At this point in time, the intermittent, and far more expensive, renewable energies cannot provide the countless energy services on which our long, healthy, affluent, and comfortable lives with personal freedom depend.
Some 68 million Americans — roughly one in five — have some sort of a criminal record and as a result are often excluded from certain areas of the workforce.
The Senate Research Center says 1.2 million Texans have lost their licenses due to the program, leaving people with the choice of driving on a suspended license or losing the means to get to their job to support themselves and their family.
Professor Click was fired by the UM Board of Curators last Thursday. But it wasn't really the board that did her in. It was free markets — prospective students, their parents, donors, and alumni — expressing their displeasure with their checkbooks.
Center for Education Freedom Policy Analyst Michael Barba discusses educational choice and quality on The Lars Larson Show.
Free trade allows Americans the ability to satisfy their desires by purchasing goods and services of better quality or lower price elsewhere.
Texas is dead last in the nation in access to health care and in expanding the use of innovative technology, like telemedicine, to meet that need.
Among the top ten most populous states in the nation, the principal amount owed by Texas is $225 billion and is the 2nd largest total next to only California who is $268 billion in the hole.
As the Foundation and many others have argued in the past, putting Austin between Texans and the pension plans that serve them is poor public policy, and an entirely new approach is needed.
Moving forward with a living wage proposal will only end up worsening the district’s fiscal position and possibly force more students to leave the district. SAISD would be better off scrutinizing its budget for efficiencies that can be redirected to merit-based raises for deserving employees thereby helping employees, taxpayers, and students.
The key to returning Texas’ state and local retirement systems to sound footing is the elimination of defined benefit plans for new employees and transitioning the state’s workforce into a defined contribution-type system. By changing how Texas offers public pensions, we can achieve a system that is sustainable system for all.