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, 2014AUSTIN – 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, 2014AUSTIN – 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, 2014New Reason Study Exposes Consequences of Bag Bans
Press Release June 19, 2014AUSTIN – 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, 2014AUSTIN – 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, 2014TPPF Teaches High School Honors Students about Free Markets Aboard the U.S.S. Lexington
Press Release June 17, 2014The 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, 2014AUSTIN – 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, 2014AUSTIN – Derek Cohen, Policy Analyst with the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Effective Justice, will testify before the Texas Senate Jurisprudence Committee on Tuesday, June 3 at 10:00 a.m. Central Time in Room 2E.20 of the Texas State Capitol. The hearing will review the implementation of the 83rd Legislature’s Senate Bill 393 and Senate Bill...
Press Release June 3, 2014The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released The Real Texas Budget, an overview of Texas appropriations and spending from 2004 through 2015. The report’s authors, the Foundation’s Talmadge Heflin, Director of the Center for Fiscal Policy, Vice President for Research Bill Peacock, and Dr. Vance Ginn, Center for Fiscal Policy Economist, sifted through numerous complex budget reports and accounted for legislative budget devices to catalogue for taxpayers how much of their tax dollars the state of Texas actually spends.
Press Release June 3, 2014Derek Cohen, Policy Analyst with the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Effective Justice, will testify before the Texas Senate Jurisprudence Committee on Tuesday, June 3 at 10:00 a.m. Central Time in Room 2E.20 of the Texas State Capitol. The hearing will review the implementation of the 83rd Legislature’s Senate Bill 393 and Senate Bill 1114 — legislation that established a tiered discipline model for schools and kept thousands of children from being processed as a criminal for minor behavioral issues, such as making too much noise — to determine if any statutory changes are necessary to clarify the intent of this legislation, and will also monitor the implementation of statewide electronic filing as mandated by the Texas Supreme Court to determine if any additional training or resources are needed by local jurisdictions.
Press Release June 2, 2014