AUSTIN – A new report from the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) finds that confinement rates for status offenders – kids whose actions would not be considered criminal if committed by an adult – declined by 52 percent between 2001 and 2011. Despite this progress, an estimated 6,200 kids are confined annually for non-violent status offenses,...
Press Release March 17, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Health Care Policy today released a policy brief, Self-Insurance: The ObamaCare Escape Hatch, that urges Texas lawmakers to authorize a state-regulated, savings-based approach to individual health insurance, and also take steps to make self-insurance more affordable for small businesses by exempting stop-loss coverage from certain state taxes. These...
Press Release March 14, 2014Dallas Fed Reports: Texas Adds Jobs for All
Press Release March 13, 2014Austin, TX – Vikrant Reddy, Senior Policy Analyst for the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Center for Effective Justice and Right on Crime, will testify at the United States Sentencing Commission's public hearing on proposed amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines on Thursday, March 13 at 11 a.m. ET at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building...
Press Release March 13, 2014Austin, TX — Vikrant Reddy, Senior Policy Analyst for the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Effective Justice and Right on Crime, will testify at the United States Sentencing Commission’s public hearing on proposed amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines on Thursday, March 13 at 11 a.m. ET at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building...
Press Release March 13, 2014Overwhelming Majority Support Abolishing Franchise Tax
Press Release March 7, 2014TPPF releases new report on civil asset forfeiture
Press Release March 6, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation will release the report “Taking Contraband Without Taking Away Our Liberties: Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform in Texas” on March 6, 2014. Authored by Derek Cohen, policy analyst with the Center for Effective Justice, the study details how state and federal forfeiture procedures are being excessively used in many instances,...
Press Release March 5, 2014AUSTIN – Dr. Thomas Lindsay, Director of Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Higher Education, will serve as a panelist at “Cheaper. Faster. Better? The 10k Degree,” hosted by the SXSWedu Conference and Festival on Tuesday, March 4 at 12:00 p.m. at the Austin Convention Center in Room 15. WHO: Dr. Thomas Lindsay, Director, Center for Higher...
Press Release March 3, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Economic Freedom reacted to this morning’s forecast for reserve margins in the Texas electricity market from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT): "ERCOT’s forecast of increased reserves confirms that there is no need to re-regulate the Texas electricity market or impose a $3.2 billion electricity...
Press Release February 28, 2014AUSTIN – Texas Public Policy Foundation's Senior Health Care Policy Analyst John Davidson authors The IRS Persists in today's National Review Online. From the piece: "The desire of the Obama administration to censor the political speech of conservative nonprofits has found a sympathetic audience in Texas, of all places, where the editors of the San Antonio Express-News last week made...
Press Release February 27, 2014Transcript: Local Choice: A New Idea for Freedom in Texas Education
Press Release February 25, 2014