Robert Inman, Professor of Finance, Economics, and Public Policy, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. To my mind there is no scarcity of important questions and…
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Alan D. Viard, Resident Scholar at AEI for tax and budget policy More than 500 federally recognized Native American tribes (including Alaska natives) are present…
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Anthony Gad, Director of Research at State Innovation Exchange (SiX) One tactic that corporate special interests have used to halt economic reforms supportive of working…
Tina Fletcher, University of Pennsylvania Education Policy PhD 2022; Trina Fletcher, Assistant Professor at Florida International University Although Arkansas’ official state nickname is the Land…
Victoria Reese: William and Mary 2020 Between the years 2004 and 2012 the smoking prevalence in Virginia declined by 3.43%. Over the same period, significant…
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Sinead Hunt: Barnard 2020 In December 2017, the Trump administration eliminated the tax penalties associated with the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, repealing the requirement…
Andrew Ford: University of Pennsylvania Masters of Education Policy 2019 State and local policymakers face a dilemma with student speech. On the one hand, policymakers…
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A YSLPR Interview (click to download) YSLPR: Please tell us about a policy issue that you anticipate will be challenging in the coming year. Is…
Professor Nestor Davidson: Fordham Law School, Founder and Faculty Director, Urban Law Center One area of focus that would help state and local governments is…
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Jacob Wasserman: UCLA Master of Urban and Regional Planning 2019, Yale 2016 “Self-driving cars won’t work until we change our roads,” wrote Andrew Ng, chief…