AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation will host “Texas at a Turning Point: A Free Market Economics Conference and Luncheon,” on April 16, 2014, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Central Time at the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol. This conference will bring together Texas’ brightest and most eminent economists to discuss policy challenges...
Press Release April 14, 2014Gambling Expansion in Texas?
Press Release April 14, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation issued the following statement today regarding Texas House Speaker Joe Straus' appointment of members to the House Select Committee on Transportation Funding, Expenditures and Finance: "The new select committee has serious work before it, in both innovative reform and funding. Only by tackling both reform and funding can...
Press Release April 7, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released Protecting Texas Taxpayers: the Sales Tax Relief (STaR) Fund. This report, authored by Talmadge Heflin, TPPF's Director of the Center for Fiscal Policy and Dr. Vance Ginn, Center for Fiscal Policy Economist, discusses how the creation of a STaR Fund could help slow the growth of...
Press Release April 7, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released Protecting Texas Taxpayers: the Sales Tax Relief (STaR) Fund. This report, authored by Talmadge Heflin, TPPF’s Director of the Center for Fiscal Policy and Dr. Vance Ginn, Center for Fiscal Policy Economist, discusses how the creation of a STaR Fund could help slow the growth of government spending...
Press Release April 7, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation will host a media conference call with Senator Brian Birdwell on Monday, April 7, at 10:00 a.m. Central Time, to discuss TPPF's upcoming report Protecting Texas Taxpayers: Sales Tax Relief (STaR) Fund. This report, authored by Talmadge Heflin, TPPF's Director of the Center for Fiscal Policy, and Dr....
Press Release April 4, 2014The Truth About the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers
Press Release April 3, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation will present at the Legislative Budget Board’s April Criminal Justice Forum on Friday, April 4, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. Central Time at the Robert E. Johnson Conference Center. Marc Levin, Director of the Foundation’s Center for Effective Justice and Derek Cohen, policy analyst with the Center for Effective Justice,...
Press Release April 2, 2014Environmental Regulatory Overreach: The Last Four Days
Press Release March 28, 2014AUSTIN – Texas Public Policy Foundation President and CEO Brooke Rollins will introduce United States Senator Ted Cruz of Texas at the Heritage Foundation’s 2014 Resource Bank at The Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. Sen. Cruz’s address, “Make D.C. Listen: Principled Actions to Empower the American People,” will be delivered Friday, March...
Press Release March 28, 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, 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, 2014