TPPF releases new report: America’s Constitutional Crisis: Time for an Article V Amendments Convention?

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released Texas Education: Original Intent of Texas Constitution. Written by the Honorable Kent Grusendorf, Senior Fellow for Education, the paper examines the history of education policy in Texas. It focuses especially on the original intent of the Texas Constitution’s requirement for the state legislature’s “support and maintenance of...

Press Release June 30, 2014

Texas Mayors Call for Climate Change Action at the U.S. Conference of Mayors

Texas Mayors Call for Climate Change Action at the U.S. Conference of Mayors

Press Release June 24, 2014

TPPF’s Mario Loyola featured in National Affairs

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Senior Fellows Mario Loyola and Richard Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law (emeritus) at the University of Chicago, co-author the lead article for National...

Press Release June 23, 2014

TPPF statement on U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA

AUSTIN – James Quintero, Director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Local Governance issued this statement today about the U.S. Conference of Mayors:   “Earlier today, the U.S. Conference of Mayors began wrapping up its annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, by passing several dubious climate-change resolutions that call for a massive expansion of...

Press Release June 23, 2014

TPPF statement on the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Climate Change Resolutions

AUSTIN – James Quintero, Director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Local Governance issued this statement today about the U.S. Conference of Mayors:   “Earlier today, the U.S. Conference of Mayors began wrapping up its annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, by passing several dubious climate-change resolutions that call for a massive expansion of...

Press Release June 23, 2014

Texas job growth heats up in May

AUSTIN – Today the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the regional and state employment report for May 2014. The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Fiscal Policy Economist Dr. Vance Ginn released this statement on another month of job growth in Texas: “Today’s state employment report provides further evidence that the Texas model of limited government is...

Press Release June 20, 2014

New Reason Study Exposes Consequences of Bag Bans

New Reason Study Exposes Consequences of Bag Bans

Press Release June 19, 2014

TPPF releases new paper Fossil Fuels: The Moral Case

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released Fossil Fuels: The Moral Case. This paper, authored by TPPF’s Distinguished Senior Fellow and Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment Kathleen Hartnett White, makes the case that fossil fuels have vastly improved living conditions across the world and released entire populations from abject...

Press Release June 19, 2014

TPPF’s Talmadge Heflin to testify before the Texas Senate Committee on Government Organization

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released Fossil Fuels: The Moral Case. This paper, authored by TPPF’s Distinguished Senior Fellow and Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment Kathleen Hartnett White, makes the case that fossil fuels have vastly improved living conditions across the world and released entire populations from abject...

Press Release June 18, 2014

TPPF Teaches High School Honors Students about Free Markets Aboard the U.S.S. Lexington

TPPF Teaches High School Honors Students about Free Markets Aboard the U.S.S. Lexington

Press Release June 17, 2014

TPPF releases Extreme Weather and Climate Change: What the Science Really Says

The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released Extreme Weather and Climate Change: What the Science Really Says. This report, authored by TPPF Policy Analyst with the Armstrong Center for Energy and Environment Josiah Neeley, discusses the facts about climate change and its link to today’s extreme weather events.

Press Release June 16, 2014

TPPF releases The Elusive Uninsured: Assessing the ACA Exchange in Texas

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation released today The Elusive Uninsured: Assessing the ACA Exchange in Texas. This report, authored by TPPF’s Senior Health Care Policy Analyst John Davidson, examines the Affordable Care Act’s failure to attract a large share of Texas’ uninsured population eligible for coverage on the exchange.  “The ACA was passed partly...

Press Release June 9, 2014