AUSTIN – Marc Levin, Director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Center for Effective Justice, was featured in Rolling Stone. "Five Offenses That Can Land Kids (But Not Adults) In Jail" discusses status offenses – behavior that is considered criminal based solely on the age of the offender – and TPPF's recently released report, "Kids Doing Time for What's...
Press Release March 27, 2014AUSTIN – Marc Levin, Director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Effective Justice, was featured in Rolling Stone. "Five Offenses That Can Land Kids (But Not Adults) In Jail" discusses status offenses — behavior that is considered criminal based solely on the age of the offender — and TPPF’s recently released report, "Kids Doing Time for What's...
Press Release March 27, 2014New Welfare Numbers: Hardworking Texas Sees Greater Declines than the Nation
Press Release March 25, 2014AUSTIN – Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Director of the Center for Higher Education Dr. Thomas Lindsay authored the RealClearPolicy article "Harvard's Chickens Come Home to Roost?" It was the “most read” piece of the day on March 18th. The article discusses the case of a Harvard Crimson author who calls for an end to academic freedom, and ties it to a...
Press Release March 20, 2014Congress Retreats from Flood Insurance Reform
Press Release March 19, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Vice President of Policy Chuck DeVore authored an article last week for Breitbart Texas entitled, “Texas Public Education Has Bloated Bureaucracy to $500 Million Annually.” In the piece, DeVore writes: “Numerous studies have shown that per pupil public education spending has more than doubled in inflation adjusted terms...
Press Release March 18, 2014AUSTIN – 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, 2014AUSTIN – 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, 2014AUSTIN – 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, 2014Dallas Fed Reports: Texas Adds Jobs for All
Press Release March 13, 2014Austin, 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, 2014Austin, 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