AUSTIN – 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, 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, 2014