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From Education Week:
And some conservatives have expressed unease about police unions in addition to teachers’ unions.
I write to you as director of finance, insurance and trade policy for the R Street Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public-policy research organization whose mission is to engage in policy…
Missouri is currently embroiled in a lawsuit over whether Missourians have a legal right to cast absentee ballots in light of the deadly coronavirus. State officials say that the epidemic is not an…
The COVID-19 outbreak is expected to hit the workers’ compensation insurance market hard. After a long stretch of declining costs that saw rates fall nationwide from 2015 to 2019, claims for workers…
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump announced that the federal government will remove certain federal barriers to telehealth access. Now, Medicare beneficiaries can access a range of…
California has the largest number of active military members in the nation, who live on relatively low salaries in this exceedingly expensive state. To make matters worse, the state has enacted…
Even after serving their time and paying their debts to society, many Washingtonians are held back by a criminal record, which locks them out of many opportunities for a lifetime. Luckily, Washington…
Dear Chairman Kern,
The R Street Institute is writing to support House Bill 2809, which provides fee reductions to occupational license holders when the licensing fund exceeds 50 percent of its…
From California Globe:
Many Californian cities still haven’t fully gotten out of the Great Recession from over a decade ago. Some, like Stockton, have only recently come out of financial…
Dear Sen. Ugenti-Rita,
The R Street Institute is writing to strongly support Senate Bill 1274, which restructures the membership of several licensing boards to include more public members. R…