Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation is proud to announce the launch of its new conservative commentary website, The Cannon Online. “Increasingly over the last four years, conservative ideas have been held captive by leftist legacy media,” said TPPF’s Executive Director Kevin Roberts. “Editors wielded their power to prevent the dissemination of our ideas and policy...
Press Release February 8, 2021The Biden administration’s sweeping abandonment of a commitment to enforcing U.S. immigration laws, including the execution of lawful deportations, failure to support effective state and local cooperation in enforcing such laws, failure to support the completion of border wall construction in needed areas of the U.S. southwestern border and failure to seek and secure legislative...
Press Release February 4, 2021Following Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s State of the State address, the Texas Public Policy Foundation and its Citizens Defense and Right on Crime campaigns commend the Governor for making public safety a clear priority by declaring making bail reform, providing police officers with the best possible training and funding, and protecting Second Amendment rights emergency items. Randy Petersen, Senior...
Press Release February 1, 2021The Texas Public Policy Foundation commends Governor Greg Abbott for designating election integrity as an emergency item and working to ensure all Texan’s voices are protected and trust is restored in our election system. TPPF’s Executive Director Kevin Roberts gave the following statement: “The 2020 election highlighted several areas in which the administration of our...
Press Release February 1, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Right on Crime project published the paper Reining in Solitary Confinement in Texas: Recent Progress and Next Steps. “Solitary confinement constitutes a significant deprivation of liberty for those who have already been segregated from society and must be carefully scrutinized,” said Marc Levin, the paper’s author. “In the last decade,...
Press Release January 29, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation announced Josh Jones has joined the Foundation’s Right on Immigration efforts as a senior fellow specializing in border security. “Within his first week in office, President Biden signed an executive order that would, if allowed to go into effect, result in an unprecedented humanitarian crisis at our country’s southern...
Press Release January 29, 2021The Bond Review Board’s newly released dataset reveals that local governments continue to borrow heavily. According to the agency, debt owed by cities, counties, school districts, and special districts grew to a total of $375.7 billion in fiscal year 2020, an increase of almost $50 billion since 2016. On a per capita basis, local governments...
Press Release January 28, 2021The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Life:Powered project announced opposition to President Joe Biden’s “Climate Day” executive orders. “President Biden’s executive overreach will grow government, hurt responsible energy producers, and make the energy we need expensive and scarce — damaging every sector of our economy,” said Jason Isaac, director of Life:Powered. “What’s even worse is that...
Press Release January 27, 2021The Texas Public Policy Foundation commends the actions of the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for seeking judicial review of Biden’s Executive Order freezing lawful deportation of undocumented individuals for 100 days. “Biden’s executive order pen does not allow him to violate federal law, which the Court correctly found does not allow the President to...
Press Release January 27, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Right on Crime campaign published the paper Prisons and Penny-Pinching: Finding Budget Savings in the Time of COVID-19. “In light of projected budgetary shortfalls due to suppressed economic activity, Texas state officials called for some agencies and institutions, including the Department of Criminal Justice, to identify savings of 5% in...
Press Release January 26, 2021Today, the Texas Workforce Commission released the state jobs report for Dec. 2020 in which the Texas unemployment rate fell from 8.1% in Nov. 2020 to 7.2%. “Today’s jobs report for Texas shows some good news for workers and employers in December as employment increased for the eighth straight month and as the unemployment rate dropped to 7.2%,” said TPPF’s Chief Economist Vance...
Press Release January 22, 2021Following Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s roundtable discussing public safety issues, the Texas Public Policy Foundation and its Citizens Defense and Right on Crime campaigns commend the Governor for his support in providing police officers with the best possible training and funding to ensure “a safer future for the state of Texas,” Randy Petersen, Senior Researcher with the Citizens Defense Campaign:...
Press Release January 21, 2021