Experts from the Texas Public Policy Foundation will testify today in a Senate hearing on several key issues for local governments, including homelessness, disannexation powers, and the disgraceful practice of allowing taxpayers to fund lobbyists. The Senate Committee on Local Governments will convene at 1:30 pm in the Capitol Extension, Room E1.016. Testifying today for...
Press Release September 13, 2022The Texas Public Policy Foundation and the Texas Attorney General’s office have been defending in district court a recently passed election integrity measure that ensures voters register to vote at their home address. The case, Texas State LULAC v. Paxton, is now at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which just announced...
Press Release September 13, 2022New research from the Texas Public Policy Foundation provides a historical review of the issues that have led to dramatic changes in the collegiate sports model over the past twenty-five years. The paper, “Paid in Full: From Amateurism to NIL and the New Marketplace for College Athletes,” looks at recent trends in college sports revenue gains and...
Press Release September 8, 2022As long as the Mexican state fails to properly address the influence of the cartels, Texas should take aggressive steps to combat the violence, drug trafficking, and human smuggling spilling across the border, says TPPF’s CEO Greg Sindelar. In a speech delivered in Mexico City to the American Society of Mexico, Sindelar says that as...
Press Release September 6, 2022On Tuesday, September 6th, Texas Public Policy Foundation CEO Greg Sindelar will address the American Society of Mexico’s Binational Convention to discuss the crisis at the southern border, and how bad policy pursued by both the U.S and Mexican governments has only made things worse. “Leadership is confronting the brutal facts, not ignoring them. Both...
Press Release September 6, 2022A new tool from the Texas Public Policy Foundation shows dozens of cities and counties plan to raise property tax bills for the upcoming year. TPPF’s “Local Government Property Tax Tracker” has begun compiling available data on cities and counties across the state to inform Texans about how their local governments are responding to skyrocketing...
Press Release September 1, 2022Proponents for student loan forgiveness are ignoring a significant cause of excessive student loan debt, according to new research from the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The paper focuses on a system in which colleges and universities face little to no accountability for saddling students with massive debt while providing a low-quality education. The research by...
Press Release August 30, 2022Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation applauded California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to veto a bill that would sanction safe drug injection sites in San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles. Such sites, illegal under federal law, would only worsen the problem of rampant drug use and homelessness in those cities, and as Gov. Newsom correctly...
Press Release August 25, 2022Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation condemns the decision by the Biden administration to pursue broad-scale student loan forgiveness, welfare for the rich that will not fix the student debt crisis. Badly targeted loan forgiveness, while harming the economy through increased inflationary pressures, will only encourage the harmful practices that have created a $1.6 trillion...
Press Release August 24, 2022Today, TPPF Chief Economist Vance Ginn released the following statement on the current economic recession: “Despite the Biden administration’s claims to the contrary, the U.S. is in a recession. And despite its claims that everything else is to blame for the 40-year high in inflation, the blame is on the bad policies of excessive spending,...
Press Release August 22, 2022New research from the Texas Public Policy Foundation reveals that 2021 Winter Storm Uri exposed predictable problems in the state’s electric grid. The paper, “Pushed to The Brink: The 2021 Electric Grid Crisis and How Texas Is Responding,” shows that after decades of overinvestment in unreliable renewable energy generation and underinvestment in reliability measures, the...
Press Release August 18, 2022Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation applauds Texas Gov. Abbott’s support for empowering parents to make the best educational decisions for their children, along with pushing for curriculum transparency and high-quality education options for parents. “Parents should have the necessary tools to ensure every child has access to a quality education that works best for...
Press Release August 11, 2022