AUSTIN—The Texas Public Policy Foundation is pleased to announce Rep. Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, potentially the next Speaker of the Texas House, will provide a keynote address on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, at 8:00 a.m. at the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s 17th Annual Policy Orientation. “The Texas Public Policy Foundation is honored to host Rep. Dennis...
Press Release November 28, 2018AUSTIN— Yesterday, the Texas Public Policy Foundation filed a lawsuit in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the township of Canton. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of F.P. Development, LLC, and claims the township’s tree ordinance is an unconstitutional taking of private property under the Fifth Amendment and an...
Press Release November 27, 2018AUSTIN—Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released the paper, “How Education Savings Accounts Could Help Texas’ Most Vulnerable Students Succeed.” The paper, written by TPPF’s Senior Education Policy Advisor Kara Belew, explores the effects school choice, specifically Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) modeled after those proposed in SB 3, could have for economically disadvantaged urban children....
Press Release November 27, 2018AUSTIN—Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released the paper, “The U.S. Leads the World in Clean Air: The Case for Environmental Optimism.” The paper, written by TPPF’s Kathleen Hartnett White and Brent Bennett, Ph.D., examines how America achieved robust economic growth while dramatically reducing emissions of air pollutants. “Although rarely recognized, the environmental record of...
Press Release November 27, 2018AUSTIN – Preliminary data released by the Texas Bond Review Board found cities, counties, school districts, and special districts owe a total of $354.6 billion as of fiscal year 2018. James Quintero, Director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Think Local Liberty initiative, issued the following statement: “Texas’ local governments are awash in a sea of red...
Press Release November 26, 2018Austin, TX — Today, twenty prominent Texas conservative leaders sent a letter to Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn urging them to support the First Step Act, which would provide reentry programming to help reduce recidivism, provide modest sentencing reforms, increase public safety, and give those incarcerated a second chance once they have paid their...
Press Release November 21, 2018AUSTIN – Today, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released state-level labor market data for October 2018. The report found Texas employers in the public and private sectors created 32,300 net nonfarm jobs last month bringing the net number of jobs created in the last 12 months to the most of any state at 384,800...
Press Release November 16, 2018AUSTIN—Today, the Texas Third District Court of Appeals rendered its judgment in the paid sick leave case brought against the City of Austin by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The judgment holds that the City’s paid sick leave ordinance violates the Texas Constitution because it is preempted by the Texas Minimum Wage Act and orders a temporary injunction to be...
Press Release November 16, 2018AUSTIN— Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released the policy perspective, “Money for Nothing: An Introduction to Chapter 313 Tax Abatements.” The paper’s author Stanley Greer, a senior research associate with the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, offered the following statement: “Chapter 313 of the Texas Tax Code, known as the ‘Texas Economic Development...
Press Release November 15, 2018AUSTIN – Today, Vance Ginn, Ph.D., senior economist and director of the Center for Economic Prosperity, and Kara Belew, senior education policy advisor for the Center for Innovation in Education, of the Texas Public Policy Foundation will provide invited testimony before the Texas Commission on Public School Finance. “Texas’ property tax system has turned property owners...
Press Release November 13, 2018AUSTIN – Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released the paper “School Property Tax Reform: An Analysis of Options.” “Texas’ property taxes and school finance system have been a source of widespread contention and inefficiency for more than 20 years; an overall reform is long overdue,” said John Diamond, Ph.D., co-author of the study and...
Press Release November 12, 2018AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation congratulates Texas state Rep. Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, on his Monday announcement that he has secured the votes to become the next Speaker of the Texas House. “When lawmakers convene in January, they’ll have a unique opportunity to make progress on some of the most pressing challenges Texans face,”...
Press Release November 12, 2018