Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation published a new paper that provides an economic analysis of the RESTART Act, a bipartisan bill working its way through Congress. “The goal of the RESTART Act is for businesses to use the 6 months of additional funding to restart or accelerate their operations,” says the paper’s author Charles F. Beauchamp,...
Press Release September 24, 2020Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Right on Crime initiative published the paper Solitary Confinement in the Pelican State. “The history of Louisiana’s criminal justice system, particularly its penitentiary system, is as complex and unique as the state itself,” says TPPF’s Scott Peyton, Louisiana State Director of Right on Crime. “To understand solitary confinement in...
Press Release September 22, 2020State Representative Tan Parker, the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) and Merrie Spaeth of Spaeth Communications, Inc. announce the publication of “Making Government Work,” bringing together many of today’s most powerful voices in America. Chuck Norris, Rick Perry, Kathy Ireland, Bob Woodson, Jeb Bush, Robert P. George, Rick Santorum and many more engage in dialogue...
Press Release September 22, 2020The Texas Public Policy Foundation filed an amicus brief in the Twelfth Court of Appeals in support of a family subjected to a wrongful investigation by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). TPPF’s amicus brief highlights constitutional defects in the statute used by the Department to sue the Berryman family to forcibly enter their home...
Press Release September 18, 2020Nearly three-quarters of Texans live in regions with very low COVID-19 hospitalization rates, according to a new analysis from the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The data show that fully 72% of Texans are in Trauma Service Areas where less than 7% of hospital patients have lab–confirmed cases of COVID-19, including Houston, San Antonio, and Austin which are...
Press Release September 18, 2020Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation published the paper Trends in State Funding and Tuition Revenue for Public Higher Education: 1980-2019. “Conventional wisdom holds that higher education has been suffering from cuts to state funding, often described as state disinvestment, but the data show that states have increased state funding per student over time,” said Andrew...
Press Release September 17, 2020Today the Texas Public Policy Foundation published the paper A Contract for Public Safety: A Model for the 21st Century. “Far too often, law enforcement officers are found guilty in the court of public opinion before being afforded their due process rights,” says Sheriff (Ret.) Currie Myers, Ph.D., senior visiting fellow with the Texas Public Policy...
Press Release September 15, 2020Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation published the paper Second Chance Parenting: Restoring Parental Rights. “At any given moment, thousands of children in the United States and Texas are waiting to be adopted out of the foster care system,” says Nikki Pressley, policy analyst with the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “Many will age out of...
Press Release September 9, 2020The Texas Public Policy Foundation submitted a coalition letter to the State Board of Education, Governor Greg Abbott, and Education Commissioner Mike Morath regarding the approval of new charter schools in Texas. “In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has uprooted existing institutional structures and put millions of Texans into precarious financial positions, Texas families are struggling,...
Press Release September 4, 2020Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation published the paper Using Efficiency Audits to Improve Child Welfare. “Efficiency audits provide a much-needed reality check, allowing policymakers and taxpayers to clearly see how well an agency is doing at achieving its objectives,” said Andrew Brown, distinguished senior fellow of child and family policy at the Texas Public Policy...
Press Release September 1, 2020Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation published the paper “Action Civics,” “New Civics,” “Civic Engagement,” and “Project-Based Civics”: Advances in Civic Education? “There is fundamental agreement on both sides that civics education in America is broken and something must be done about it if we are to preserve our experiment in self government,” said Thomas Lindsay,...
Press Release September 1, 2020The Texas Public Foundation commends Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for seeking both a temporary and permanent injunction against Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins to prevent his office from sending over two million applications for mail in ballots to every registered voter in Harris County regardless of whether the voter requested an application or qualifies...
Press Release August 31, 2020