Kids Doing Time for What’s Not a Crime: New Data Shows Youth Incarceration for Non-Violent Offenses Continues to Decline

AUSTIN –  Confinement rates of status offenders – behavior that is considered criminal based solely on the age of the offender – continue to decline across the nation, according to a new report released today by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Yet despite this promising trend, the criminalization of status offenses, which include non-violent behaviors like...

Press Release March 18, 2014

TOMORROW: Telebriefing on ‘Kids Doing Time For What’s Not A Crime’

AUSTIN –  A new report from the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) finds that confinement rates for status offenders – kids whose actions would not be considered criminal if committed by an adult – declined by 52 percent between 2001 and 2011. Despite this progress, an estimated 6,200 kids are confined annually for non-violent status offenses,...

Press Release March 17, 2014

TPPF releases policy brief on self-insurance in the individual health care market

AUSTIN –  The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Health Care Policy today released a policy brief, Self-Insurance: The ObamaCare Escape Hatch, that urges Texas lawmakers to authorize a state-regulated, savings-based approach to individual health insurance, and also take steps to make self-insurance more affordable for small businesses by exempting stop-loss coverage from certain state taxes. These...

Press Release March 14, 2014

Dallas Fed Reports: Texas Adds Jobs for All

Dallas Fed Reports: Texas Adds Jobs for All

Press Release March 13, 2014

MEDIA AVAILABILITY: TPPF’s Jess Fields available to discuss public safety’s pensions and healthcare benefits program in San Antonio

Austin, TX – Vikrant Reddy, Senior Policy Analyst for the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Center for Effective Justice and Right on Crime, will testify at the United States Sentencing Commission's public hearing on proposed amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines on Thursday, March 13 at 11 a.m. ET at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building...

Press Release March 13, 2014

THURSDAY: Vikrant Reddy to testify before U.S. Sentencing Commission

Austin, TX — Vikrant Reddy, Senior Policy Analyst for the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Effective Justice and Right on Crime, will testify at the United States Sentencing Commission’s public hearing on proposed amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines on Thursday, March 13 at 11 a.m. ET at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building...

Press Release March 13, 2014

Overwhelming Majority Support Abolishing Franchise Tax

Overwhelming Majority Support Abolishing Franchise Tax

Press Release March 7, 2014

TPPF releases new report on civil asset forfeiture

TPPF releases new report on civil asset forfeiture

Press Release March 6, 2014

TOMORROW: TPPF to release new report on civil asset forfeiture

AUSTIN –  The Texas Public Policy Foundation will release the report “Taking Contraband Without Taking Away Our Liberties: Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform in Texas” on March 6, 2014. Authored by Derek Cohen, policy analyst with the Center for Effective Justice, the study details how state and federal forfeiture procedures are being excessively used in many instances,...

Press Release March 5, 2014

TOMORROW: Dr. Thomas Lindsay at SXSWedu

AUSTIN –  Dr. Thomas Lindsay, Director of Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Higher Education, will serve as a panelist at “Cheaper. Faster. Better? The 10k Degree,” hosted by the SXSWedu Conference and Festival on Tuesday, March 4 at 12:00 p.m. at the Austin Convention Center in Room 15. WHO:             Dr. Thomas Lindsay, Director, Center for Higher...

Press Release March 3, 2014

TPPF statement on the release of ERCOT’s Report on Capacity

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Economic Freedom reacted to this morning’s forecast for reserve margins in the Texas electricity market from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT): "ERCOT’s forecast of increased reserves confirms that there is no need to re-regulate the Texas electricity market or impose a $3.2 billion electricity...

Press Release February 28, 2014

TPPF statement on ObamaCare enrollment numbers

AUSTIN – Texas Public Policy Foundation's Senior Health Care Policy Analyst John Davidson authors The IRS Persists in today's National Review Online.  From the piece: "The desire of the Obama administration to censor the political speech of conservative nonprofits has found a sympathetic audience in Texas, of all places, where the editors of the San Antonio Express-News last week made...

Press Release February 27, 2014