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About the Foundation
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan research institute. The Foundation’s mission is to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas by educating and affecting policymakers and the Texas public policy debate with academically sound research and outreach.
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Highlighted Research
| Learning from Others' Mistakes | | What Europe's Experience with Renewable Mandates and Subsidies can Teach Texas |
| The experience of several European nations with renewable energy subsidies sheds light on Texas’ ability to promote green jobs through supports for wind power. |
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| Costs and Consequences: America's Misguided Energy Policies | |
| The Obama administration's energy policy seems designed to reduce availability and increase prices of fossil fuels out of a misguided environmental policy. Those policies will not favor alternative energy sources—they will only hurt working families. |
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| Medical Loss Ratios | |
| Medical Loss Ratios are a significant new regulation of insurance markets, and the Texas Department of Insurance contends that they will destabilize the state’s small group and individual insurance marketplaces. |
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| Amicus Brief: Florida v. HHS et al | | The Medicaid expansion provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are impermissibly coercive of state governments |
| In this brief of amici curiae to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Foundation (joined by 36 members of the Texas Legislature) argues that the U.S. Supreme Court should rule that the Medicaid expansion provisions of the ACA are impermissibly coercive of state governments, and strike them down. |
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| Texas Business and ObamaCare | |
| ObamaCare will be a significant burden to Texas business if it stands as it is today. The employer mandate creates a divide between small and large employers that is difficult to overcome and threatens the continued prosperity of the state of Texas. |
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| Finding Real Efficiency in Texas Public Schools | |
| The future of school finance in Texas is at a critical juncture. With new funding lawsuits moving through the courts and medicaid costs rising, the state must find a way to fund an effective and efficient system of public education. |
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| Higher Education Facts at a Glance | |
| Surveying higher education across the country, a number of trends have emerged that point to both a contemporary crisis and a coming, radical transformation. Very soon, our institutions of higher education are going to look very different. |
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Visit the Publications section for all of our reports.
| Latest Commentaries
 Ener1 Bites the Dust
Solyndra and Ener1 may end up costing taxpayers a combined $650 million, but that is just a small portion of the taxpayer money the Obama administration has 'invested' in clean energy. |
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 Costs and Consequences: America
The Obama administration's energy policy seems designed to reduce availability and increase prices of fossil fuels out of a misguided environmental policy. Those policies will not favor alternative energy sources—they will only hurt working families. |
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 A Tale of Two Energies
Two recent stories in the news offer a perfect illustration of why the best vehicle for harnessing abundant and reliable energy is the free market, rather than government planning. |
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China Is No Model
Former union leader Andy Stern looks at China and suggests the United States not “double down on an empirically failing free-market extremism.” Mario Loyola asks what "free-market" is Stern referring to and explains how the United States needs to free itself from the regulations stagnating the economy. |
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America's Job Creators vs. the Federal Government: The War Continues
Sovereign immunity and limitless litigation resources create an incentive for unscrupulous officials to persecute individual companies and whole sectors of industry at no risk or cost to themselves or to the government. That is a structural problem and it needs a structural solution, one which should be a matter of priority for the next Congress. |
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Higher Education’s Cost and Value
Many products either become less expensive or deliver increased value or functionality over time. But the available evidence strongly indicates that American education – elementary, secondary, and especially higher – is an exception. |
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Republican Defections Stall Attempt to Thwart Obama EPA Agenda
On Thursday the Senate failed to pass a resolution that would have invalidated a major new environmental regulation governing interstate emissions after a veto threat from the White House. Passage of the resolution would have been a major setback for the Obama Administration, and at least a symbolic victory for those who argue EPA has run amuck. |
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More commentaries are found in the Newsroom.
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Recent Press Releases
| Statement by TPPF Executive Director Arlene Wohlgemuth | | On Texas HHS Executive Commissioner Tom Suehs’ statement yesterday that Medicaid would require $15-17 billion in additional General Revenue during the 2014-15 biennium |
 “Commissioner Suehs’ estimate is in line with what TPPF projected in our December 2010 report, Final Notice: Medicaid Crisis. Between the growth in caseload, surging medical costs, and the new mandates in ObamaCare, Medicaid will become the largest line item in the next Texas state budget and begin to crowd out priorities such as education.” |
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| Arlene Wohlgemuth: “This is the best long-term solution to the Medicaid crisis, as it would return both the money and regulatory authority over health care to the participating states.” |
| - San Antonio Express-News | |
| Bill Peacock: The Rainy Day Fund should only be used for one-time costs, not recurring expenses like teacher salaries. Adding another patch to the heavily bandaged school finance system won |
| - The Texas Tribune | |
| Bill Peacock: "There's enough money in the current system to make sure that students get a good education if the districts will make students their priority." |
| - Houston Chronicle | |
| Kathleen Hartnett White: "Solyndra and Ener1 may end up costing taxpayers a combined $650 million, but that is just a small portion of the taxpayer money the Obama administration has 'invested' in clean energy." |
| - The Daily Caller | |
| Talmadge Heflin: “We’re still advocating not using any of the money for ongoing expenditures for the next biennium.” |
| - The Texas Tribune | |
| Marc Levin: Treating mental illness "reduces recidivism and is more cost-effective." |
| - Houston Chronicle | |
| Marc Levin, a director at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, based in Austin, applauds the small handful of states, like Oklahoma, that have used so-called medical-release laws to free ailing patients that have served much of their sentences. |
| - The Wall Street Journal | |
| Talmadge Heflin, director of the Center for Fiscal Policy in the Texas Public Policy Foundation, supports Bill King's position and has made presentations to Texas legislators to change the state's traditional retirement system. |
| - The Bryan-College Station Eagle | |
| Bill Peacock: “The fact that more corporations are winning before the Supreme Court shows that the Supreme Court is doing its job.” |
| - Texas Tribune | |
| Arlene Wohlgemuth and Talmadge Heflin: Texas should keep government spending at the level necessary to match available revenue |
| - Austin American-Statesman | |
| Joshua Treviño: “Conservatives (accurately) perceive the media mainstream to be a de facto organ of the liberal left, and by extension, the Democratic Party. And they understand that conservative governance is absolutely impossible unless that organ |
| - The New York Times | |
| Josiah Neely: Cheap energy comes when market rules |
| - Austin American-Statesman | |
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