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Backgrounders

  • How express toll lanes benefit drivers
    How express toll lanes benefit drivers

    Today, 60 express toll lane projects across the country are providing commuters with faster and more reliable alternative to congested highway lanes.

    By Robert Poole and Baruch Feigenbaum
    December 12, 2022

  • HOV lanes have failed to reduce traffic congestion or emissions
    HOV lanes have failed to reduce traffic congestion or emissions

    Carpooling plummeted from 19.7% of commuters in 1980 to only 8.9% in 2019.

    By Baruch Feigenbaum and Robert Poole
    December 12, 2022

  • Steps to protect public finance from ESG activism
    Steps to protect public finance from ESG activism

    Public pension systems are particularly exposed to the risks associated with ESG and politically-driven investing strategies.

    By Pension Integrity Project
    November 18, 2022

  • Abolishing Oklahoma’s death penalty would be good for justice and for taxpayers
    Abolishing Oklahoma’s death penalty would be good for justice and for taxpayers

    Since 1981, 10 people in Oklahoma have been exonerated while on death row awaiting execution.

    By Vittorio Nastasi
    October 6, 2022

  • Abolishing Ohio’s death penalty would be good for justice and for taxpayers
    Abolishing Ohio’s death penalty would be good for justice and for taxpayers

    Since 1979, 11 people in Ohio have been exonerated while on death row awaiting execution.

    By Vittorio Nastasi
    September 23, 2022

  • Testing mileage-based user fees as a replacement for Georgia’s gas tax
    Testing mileage-based user fees as a replacement for Georgia’s gas tax

    Georgia’s highways need a new, sustainable funding source.

    By Baruch Feigenbaum and Adrian Moore
    August 22, 2022

  • How to improve transit service for today’s workers and commuters
    How to improve transit service for today’s workers and commuters

    U.S. metro areas need a new transit approach that is tailored to serving the needs of today’s workers.

    By Baruch Feigenbaum
    July 22, 2022

  • Examining the Teachers Retirement System of Texas after the pension reforms of 2019
    Examining the Teachers Retirement System of Texas after the pension reforms of 2019

    Senate Bill 12 of 2019 made reforms, but TRS contributions will likely be insufficient because the pension plan is using outdated economic assumptions.

    By Leonard Gilroy and Steven Gassenberger
    June 3, 2022

  • What is a revenue-risk public-private partnership?
    What is a revenue-risk public-private partnership?

    And when is revenue risk the better financing choice for the state and taxpayers?

    By Robert Poole
    May 6, 2022

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