Research and Commentaries
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Research & Commentary: Georgia Common Core
Publication -Research and Commentaries -On September 24, 2014, a Georgia House Study Committee on the Role of the Federal Government in Education examined Common Core State Standards. It was the third of four such meetings, with the fourth scheduled for October 21 in Gainesville, Georgia. -
Research & Commentary: Maryland Renewable Portfolio Mandate
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Maryland’s renewable portfolio mandate, also known as a renewable power mandate, requires utilities in the state to procure from renewable sources 20 percent of the electricity they supply to retail customers by 2022. -
Research & Commentary: SNAP Update and the Return of Work Requirements
Publication -Research and Commentaries -For the first time in several years, the number of enrollees in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the food assistance program also known as food stamps, has begun to shrink in many states and the country as a whole. -
Research & Commentary: New Jersey Estate Taxes
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Few taxes imposed by state or local governments are more controversial than the estate tax, popularly referred to as the “death tax.” Estate taxes are levies on property transferred from a deceased person’s estate to relatives or other parties. -
Research & Commentary: Corporate Tax Inversions
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The United States currently has the highest corporate tax rate among the 34 nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), in addition to being one of the few nations still using a “worldwide system. -
Research & Commentary: New Jersey Renewable Portfolio Standard
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The New Jersey Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) requires all state utilities serving retail customers to procure 22.5 percent of the electricity they sell from renewable sources by 2021. -
Research & Commentary: Common Core Math Standards
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The United States scores below the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average in mathematics literacy, behind 29 other nations, predominantly from Europe. -
Research & Commentary: New Jersey Renewable Portfolio Standard
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The New Jersey Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) requires all state utilities serving retail customers to procure 22.5 percent of the electricity they sell from renewable sources by 2021. -
Research & Commentary: Common Core Math Standards
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The United States scores below the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average in mathematics literacy, behind 29 other nations, predominantly from Europe. -
Research & Commentary: Chattanooga Municipal Broadband Expansion
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The electric utility company running Chattanooga, Tennessee’s municipal broadband recently filed a petition to override a state law that prevents it from offering broadband data and video services to residents and businesses outside its electricity -
Research & Commentary: Mississippi Franchise Tax Repeal
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A tax reform proposal being floated in Mississippi could eliminate the state’s franchise tax, which is levied on businesses and partnerships chartered within the state. Mississippi is one of 18 states with a franchise tax. -
Research & Commentary: Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act and the Grandfather Clause
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Congressional leaders are now looking to move the vote on extending the moratorium on state and local taxation of Internet access and on discriminatory taxes on emails and other data to the lame duck session and push to attach to it the unpopular, -
Research & Commentary: The Clean Water Act
Publication -Research and Commentaries -After creating the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Congress passed numerous landmark environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act (CWA), which achieved a bipartisan majority in 1972. -
Research & Commentary: Common Core English Language Arts Standards
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Common Core State Standards, a grade-by-grade set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children should know in each grade in math and English language arts (ELA), have been said to establish “rigorous” and “internationally -
Research & Commentary: Endangered Species Act Repeal and Replace
Publication -Research and Commentaries -In 1973, Congress passed and President Richard M. Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The law is administered by the Interior Department’s U.S. -
Research & Commentary: Lessons of Kansas’s Income Tax Reforms
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Kansas has taken several steps in recent years to bring down its tax burden and make the state more competitive for new jobs and businesses. In 2012, Gov. -
Research & Commentary: Gov. Mike Pence’s Medicaid Expansion
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Expanding Medicaid can have repercussions beyond state budgets and the health care industry. Increasing government spending has a direct effect on the economy, shifting dollars that would have been spent in the private economy into state programs. -
Research & Commentary: Lessons of Kansas’s Income Tax Reforms
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Kansas has taken several steps in recent years to bring down its tax burden and make the state more competitive for new jobs and businesses. In 2012, Gov. -
Research & Commentary: New Mexico Renewable Portfolio Standard
Publication -Research and Commentaries -In 2002, New Mexico implemented a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) requiring investor-owned utilities to procure from renewable sources 10 percent of the electricity they sell. Utilities were supposed to have met that mandate by 2011. In 2007, then-Gov. -
Research & Commentary: Wisconsin Common Core
Publication -Research and Commentaries -On July 17, 2014, Wisconsin Gov. -
Research & Commentary: Ohio Common Core
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Ohio legislators are debating HB 597, which if approved would repeal the state’s implementation of the Common Core State Standards, a set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children should know in each grade in math and English. -
Research & Commentary: Oklahoma Pension Reform
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Unfunded pension liabilities have become an increasingly troubling problem for states across the country, including Oklahoma. -
Research & Commentary: Telemedicine
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Improvements in communications technology have led to rapid increases in the efficiency and reach of industries throughout the modern economy. -
Research & Commentary: Telemedicine
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Improvements in communications technology have led to rapid increases in the efficiency and reach of industries throughout the modern economy.
