The Texas Comptroller recently released an interactive website to score all 50 states on various metrics during multiple years that can be used to evaluate each state or compare them among others. We applaud the Comptroller for making this valuable website available.
More than 100 years ago, the US Supreme Court acknowledged the cruelty of solitary confinement. Recently, the suicide of a New York teenager isolated for two years without ever being charged has created an uproar. Why is solitary still used? What are the alternatives?
Obama’s top Clean Power Plan priority would hurt the most vulnerable Texans by increasing the cost of electricity for those who can afford it the least.
Liberals and conservatives should agree that it is wrong to make the poor, the elderly and the unemployed suffer for a scientifically negligible change in global temperature, at best.
The Texas model of governance—low taxes, less regulation, and lawsuit reform—results in more prosperity and less poverty for all Americans than does the big government model pushed by the White House and epitomized by California.
“The rent is too damn high,” but, not to worry, your government is on the case, seeking to remedy problems largely of its own making with more market distorting rules that will drive housing costs even higher.
States like Texas made a clear choice not to go along with the ACA, and they should be allowed to remain free from it — all of it, including the subsidies and the regulations that make subsidies necessary.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently signed a historic $4 billion tax and fee relief package that he said was aimed at achieving a “new era of job growth.”
Event Recap of the Western Civilization Summit and screening of “Courageous Learning” on June 9, 2015.
According to a new poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 7 in 10 Americans have heard little or nothing about King v. Burwell, the U.S. Supreme Court case that will, any day now, decide the fate of Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies for millions of Americans.
Last year, the Military Order of the World Wars approached the Texas Public Policy Foundation about having someone present on the benefits of a free enterprise system at their Southwest Youth Leadership Conference aboard the U.S.S. Lexington in Corpus Christi.
The latest report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) shows that many states economies improved in 2014. Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a measure of inflation-adjusted economic output, increased in 48 states and the District of Columbia, and the entire U.S. real GDP increased 2.2 percent last year after a 1.9 percent increase in 2013.