As an organization imbued with the Texas spirit, the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) ardently defends individual liberty and public safety. More than ever before, these principles came under attack in 2020 and will undoubtedly be further challenged in 2021, between widespread public opposition to the police and policymakers targeting our constitutional right to bear...
What We Stand For Prohibit taxpayer money from funding lobbyists. Local governments pay high-priced lobbyists to advocate for higher taxes, more spending, and greater regulatory authority. It’s wrong to ask taxpayers to fund lobbying activities that go against their interests and it needs to stop. Reform corporate welfare. Local economic development policies lead to corporate...
Next Generation Texas seeks to empower individuals and families to pursue lifelong learning. When students have the opportunity find the best context and pathway in which to develop their unique talents, they thrive. Next Generation Texas believes that: Educational systems improve when they are student-centered Student outcomes improve when they have multiple pathways to success...
Our Recovery Agenda features practical policy steps that will help unshackle our economy and accelerate not only its growth but also provide some real solutions, such as expanding telemedicine and enabling K-12 virtual education, for operating in the midst of this crisis For TPPF’s Recovery Agenda, click here. COVID Response State and Federal In addition...
Ensuring election integrity is vital, not only for our form of government but for our way of life. The most fundamental feature of a representative democracy is the citizen’s right to vote. It is key to the basic structure of our government that guarantees the rule of law, popular sovereignty, and individual freedom. The Texas...
States Trust, a project of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, exists to restore the states as a key voice in federal policymaking, under the framework of the Tenth Amendment. Our work focuses on the revival of sovereignty in its proper homes: first in the people, then in the states, and then in the federal government....
America’s immigration policy has been mired in gridlock and dysfunction for decades. With a record of research and coalition-building that drives solutions to some of the nation’s thorniest challenges, the Texas Public Policy Foundation is tackling this issue through its Right on Immigration initiative, which highlights policies that secure the border and restore the rule...
Right on Health Care is an initiative to ensure every American is in charge of their own individual or family medical decisions. When the insurance companies and the government are in control, the result is always higher costs, less access, lower quality, and worse results. To develop an effective system that prioritizes the needs of...
Life: Powered will ensure that Americans continue to benefit from abundant, reliable, safe, and clean energy. It is the essential building block that touches all our lives and influences everything from the world economy to the kitchen table. Energy powers life. From living longer, reducing poverty and improving our quality of life, the advancement of the human condition has coincided with our willingness to harness the benefits of abundant, reliable and affordable energy resources.
There’s a dignity that comes with an honest day’s work for a good paycheck. So, why aren’t we working harder to enable willing workers to learn the skills they need for the high-paying skilled labor jobs that are going unfilled? The payoff — both for the economy and for families — would be enormous. Right on Work aims to build a coalition of companies, organizations, and individuals working together to meet the needs of the 21st century workforce through career and technical education opportunities, innovative and targeted workforce programs, and reforms to ineffective and burdensome employment regulations.
Right on Crime is a national campaign of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, in partnership with the American Conservative Union Foundation and Prison Fellowship, that supports conservative solutions for reducing crime, restoring victims, reforming offenders, and lowering taxpayer costs. The movement was born in Texas in 2007.
The purpose and vision of the Liberty Leadership Council is to foster meaningful relationships among young professionals who share the values of individual liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise and to engage these individuals in the mission of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
In the spirit of Booker T. Washington, one of America's great activists for education, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance, this project uses detailed data analysis to uncover what really causes prosperity and its opposite: poverty. The Texas Public Policy Foundation proposes to redefine the debate on poverty, wellbeing, and opportunity, debunking the idea that taxation, government programs, and invasive policy solutions can truly help our nation's poor to escape their burdens.
Center for the American Future exists to advance Tenth Amendment principles through opposition to federal abuse in the areas of environmental, private property, and business autonomy rights. The Center enhances the TPPF's core mission by launching legal challenges to government overreach at the administrative, district and appellate court levels. The Center represents clients whose lives and liberty...
Texas government spending has increased substantially faster than the growth in inflation and population since 2004, at a cost to Texans of $15 billion this two-year budget cycle. That's an additional $1,000 burden on the average Texas family of four, just to fund state government. The Conservative Texas Budget Coalition was formed for precisely that reason: we can't afford the consequences of more spending.
SeeThruEdu champions the case for collegiate civic education, because higher education must be more than job training. It must also instruct students in the political, moral, and philosophic foundations of the democratic republic in which they find themselves and of which they shall in time become the leaders. In accord with this, we share Jefferson’s conviction that any nation that expects to be both “ignorant and free … expects what never was and never will be.”
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