Public school funding has risen drastically in the last couple of decades, but dollars are increasingly going toward ...
Identifying open enrollment’s effects on families, taxpayers, and districts requires detailed open enrollment data. Improving ...
A K–12 finance agenda aimed at transparency, sustainability, and productivity can help state policymakers navigate the decade ...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) has released a new artificial intelligence (AI) policy roadmap. Notably, the focus of Sen. Kelly’s “AI for America” plan departs from other federal AI policy proposals ...
In one of the most sordid scandals to rock the public-sector pension world, the manager of the New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF) was indicted last month in a “pay-for-play” scheme where ...
State and local governments have $6 trillion in total debt, including over $1 trillion in California
The nation’s state and local governments reported $6 trillion in total debt and nearly $5 trillion in long-term debt at the end of fiscal year 2024, the most recent year with complete data available, ...
New York City’s budget has been balanced, boasted Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The city was expecting a $12 billion budget deficit, but Mamdani was able to close it, he claims, without giving up on plans to ...
Newsfeeds and social media are full of stories about how institutional investors like BlackRock are buying up housing and fueling the housing crisis. People as politically far apart as former Vice ...
The nation’s 50 state governments reported $2.6 trillion in total debt and $1.9 trillion in long-term debt at the end of fiscal year 2024, Reason Foundation’s State and Local Government Finance Report ...
Recent stock market volatility and shaky economic conditions should remind policymakers that there are many scenarios where California’s public pension debt could grow significantly in the years ahead ...
The case studies below are excerpted from the study, “Evaluating Amtrak and intercity bus performance for smarter federal investment,” which compares eight intercity Amtrak routes with comparable bus ...
In a new Reason Foundation study, I express skepticism about public pension fund investments in private equity funds and hedge funds. The conclusion may have seemed unusual for a libertarian think ...
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