Solutions from the States: This Week’s Policy Briefs

• The Empire Center’s latest benchmarking report helps New York taxpayers evaluate local governments by comparing services and spending.
  
• Georgia Public Policy Foundation recently teamed up with the Knee Center at West Virginia University in a report examining how full practice authority for nurse practitioners and physician assistants can help expand health care access and health care outcomes in Georgia.
  
• The Institute for Justice released the third edition of their publication, “License to Work: A National Study of Burdens from Occupational Licensing.”
  
• John Locke Foundation released a new report detailing how much carbon reduction it would take in the United States to offset even a fraction of China’s emissions.
  
• The Foundation for Government Accountability released two reports examining Medicaid related problems, one focused on Missouri and the other on Idaho.

Network Announcements

• Applications are now open for the 2023-2024 Mercatus Center fellowships.
  
• Washington Policy Center has selected a new Eastern WA Director and a new Transportation Director.

Freedom Through the Courts

• Tennessee’s School Voucher Program Wins Court Challenges
  Beacon Center of Tennessee and Institute for Justice
  

• The Buckeye Institute Files Suit Against Biden Administration Over Illegal Student Loan Debt Cancellation
  The Buckeye Institute
  
• School Choice Wisconsin Action & Schools Sue Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Over Unlawful Regulations
  Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty
  
• WILL and Dr. Anderson File Amicus in Case Against A Maryland School District That Hides Gender Identity Transitions from Parents
  Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty
  
• WILL Files Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Review First Amendment Challenge to Mandatory State Bar Membership
  Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty

Policy News from the States

Education

• Education Insanity: What the 2022 NAEP Scores Actually Tell Alabamians
  Alabama Policy Institute
  
• National Assessment Results: Alaska a Full Year Behind the National Average
  Alaska Policy Forum
  
• Kids Need to Be In-Person At School
  Bluegrass Institute
  
• It’s Open Enrollment Season for ‘School Choice’
  Caesar Rodney Institute
  
• School Board Battles Are Raging
  California Policy Center
  
• Education Group Works to Put School Choice on the Ballot in Oregon
  Cascade Policy Institute
  
• 2022 PSSA Test Scores Still Below Pre-Pandemic Levels
  Commonwealth Foundation
  
• Mississippi Microschools Are Expanding Education Options for Families
  Empower Mississippi
  
• A Useful Tool for Students: College Earnings and Debt Database
  Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
  
• What’s On Tap for School Choice?
  Iowans for Tax Relief
  
• Full Day Kindergarten Doesn’t Solve Absenteeism
  Libertas Institute
  
• Education Savings Accounts Put #StudentsFirst and Finally Have an Opportunity to Materialize in Ohio
  The Buckeye Institute
  
• How educational entrepreneurship can create new opportunities for N.H. children
  The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy
  
• Richland School Board bans Critical Race Theory racism in its schools
  Washington Policy Center

Healthcare

• Making Medicaid Worse
  Alaska Policy Forum
  
• Turning to People, Not Government, to Meet Tennesseans’ Healthcare Needs
  Beacon Center of Tennessee
  
• Shattered Projections and Broken Promises: How Able-Bodied Adults and Ineligible Enrollees Are Fueling Idaho’s Medicaid Enrollment Surge
  Foundation for Government Accountability
  
• Missouri’s Medicaid Problem: How Congressional Handcuffs Have Led to Skyrocketing Enrollment and Exploding Costs
  Foundation for Government Accountability
  
• Ibogaine: A New Option for Addiction?
  Libertas Institute
  
• Medicaid Expansion is Never Cheap
  Pacific Research Institute
  
• Feeble Cheer for California’s Nurse Practitioners
  Pacific Research Institute

Jobs & Economy

• Is This What Fiscal Conservatism Looks Like?
  Alabama Policy Institute
  
• Biden Wants to Take Away Your Side Gig
  Beacon Center of Tennessee
  
• Rising Electricity Costs
  Commonwealth Foundation
  
• New York Bungled Billions of Pandemic-Related Payouts
  Empire Center
  
• Statement by Freedom Foundation CEO Regarding Washington Supreme Court’s Decision to Stay “Unconstitutional” Ruling on Capital Gains Tax
  Freedom Foundation
  
• Reality Check: Governor, NJ’s Taxes Aren’t Going Down
  Garden State Initiative
  
• The Impact of Fees on Georgia’s Housing Supply
  Georgia Public Policy Foundation
  
• Georgia Taxpayers Low Out After More Waste, Fraud and Abuse is Discovered
  Georgia Public Policy Foundation
  
• With the Prospects for Home Ownership Dimming, Build-to-Rent Offers a Promising Alternative
  Georgia Public Policy Foundation
  
• Why Are There So Many Mansions on the Big Island?
  Grassroot Institute of Hawaii
  
• Is overly zealous zoning the cause of Hawaii’s acute housing shortage?
  Grassroot Institute of Hawaii
  
• Why Hawaii Zoning Laws Should be Abolished
  Grassroot Institute of Hawaii
  
• Bipartisan Plan to Pay Off $1B Deficit Spares Illinois Businesses from Tax Hike
  Illinois Policy
  
• Viva la Flat Tax Revolution
  Kansas Policy Institute
  
• Secure, Affordable, Reliable Energy: It’s What American Families Need
  Mackinac Center for Public Policy
  
• Profits Over Politics: Why ESG is Bad for Mississippi
  Mississippi Center for Public Policy
  
• Is Lefty San Fransisco Moving in a Rightward Direction?
  Pacific Research Institute
  
• Louisiana Economic Situation November 2022
  Pelican Institute for Public Policy
  
• Louisiana Needs to Join the Flat Tax Revolution
  Pelican Institute for Public Policy
  
• Josephine Erni on Bringing Swiss Innovation to the U.S. Market
  Pioneer Institute
  
• Nebraska’s Surging Tax Revenues Should Accelerate Reforms
  Platte Institute
  
• Reducing Occupational Licenses Would Make It Easier to Work in Ohio
  The Buckeye Institute
  
• Time to Trim Ohio’s Cosmetology Licensing Requirements
  The Buckeye Institute
  
• The Buckeye Institute Championed Fintech Policy Headed to Governor’s Desk
  The Buckeye Institute
  
• DOR Given Green Light to Collect Capital Gains Tax While State Supreme Court Considers Case
  Washington Policy Center
  
• Yankee Institute Calls on Lawmakers to Extend Gas Tax Holiday
  Yankee Institute

Other

• Judging Our Judges
  Alaska Policy Forum
  
• With Midterm Elections Over, 2023 Moves Into the Spotlight
  Bluegrass Institute
  
• The Systemic Racism of Teachers’ Unions
  California Policy Center
  
• Let the Best Trash Man Win
  Cascade Policy Institute
  
• Harnessing Partnerships to Accelerate Forest Project Environmental Reviews
  Frontier Institute
  
• National Review: Florida’s Lessons for Conservatives
  James Madison Institute
  
• We Suck at Bail
  Libertas Institute
  
• Does Utah Need Another Water Study?
  Libertas Institute
  
• Privacy in the Digital Era: Who Controls Private Data?
  Libertas Institute
  
• The 2022 Pink Wave
  MacIver Institute
  
• Five Year Anniversary of Criminal Justice Reform in Louisiana
  Pelican Institute for Public Policy
  
• Columbia Still Making Simple things Complicated
  Show-Me Institute
  
• Election Winners Should Keep An Eye on Regulatory Bureaucracy
  Sutherland Institute
  
• What the Midterm Election Tells Us About Vote by Mail in Utah
  Sutherland Institute
  
• The Meaning of Invasion Under the Compact Clause of the U.S. Constitution
  Texas Public Policy Foundation
  
• Mayor Scott, Veto the Pension Bill!
  The Maryland Public Policy Institute
  
• SCC Hearing: Windfarm Focus on Construction Risk
  Thomas Jefferson Institute
  
• WILL Memo Encourages State Legislature to Continue Being Fiscally Responsible with Projected Surplus
  Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty

Think Tanks in the News

• Districts must follow law giving citizens access to school curriculum
  Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy, The Ledger Independent
  
• Mob Rule and the Death of Trust
  California Policy Center in The Minnesotan
  

• Climate Change Skeptics Have Ready Allies in Africa
  California Policy Center in The Michigan Star
  
• Look Beyond Wind, Solar to get to 100% carbon-free
  Center of the American Experiment in Duluth New-Tribune Online
  
• Pa.’s corporate welfare for select businesses keeps the state down
  Commonwealth Foundation, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
• Pennsylvania’s Low Unemployment Rate Masks Bigger Problems
  Commonwealth Foundation in The Center Square
  
• Remove barriers to increase health care access in Western Pa.
  Commonwealth Foundation, Trib
  
• Big Labor’s next target: Grad schools
  Empire Center in The Washington Examiner
  
• Montana GOP has a supermajority. Now what?
  Frontier Institute in The Clark Fork Valley Press
  
• The Covid Medicaid Money Grab
  Foundation for Government Accountability, Wall Street Journal
  
• How to Turn Back the Tide of Violent Crime
  Georgia Center for Opportunity in The Washington Examiner
  
• Addressing Our Housing Affordability Problem
  Georgia Public Policy Foundation in The Dalton Daily Citizen
  
• Budget surplus is good reason to cut taxes
  Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, Hawaii Reporter
  
• Shoving Patients Off Telehealth Cliff is Bad Medicine
  Goldwater Institute in Daily Independent
  
• Solutions for Illinois’ Broken Business Climate
  Illinois Policy in The Daily Herald
  
• Nursing Moms Need Relief from Georgia’s Supreme Court
  Institute for Justice, RealClearPolicy
  
• Iowa votes to continue conservative leadership and policies
  Iowans for Tax Relief in The Des Moines Register
  
• States Should Take Lead on Welfare
  John Locke Foundation in The Carolina Journal
  
• Kansas businesses are short workers. What can state government do to help?
  Kansas Policy Institute in The Topeka Capital-Journal
  
• Utah Cities Keeping Taxpayers in the Dark on Government Broadband
  Libertas Institute in The Daily Herald
  
• Michigan’s Underperforming Public Schools Require State-Mandated ‘Comprehensive Support’
  Mackinac Center in The Center Square
  
• Don’t Be Down About Mid-Terms
  Mississippi Center for Public Policy in The Greenwood Commonwealth
  
• Can We Improve Public Education by Subsidizing Private Education?
  Mountain States Policy Center in The Times-News Online
  
• A New Plan Brings Clarity To Healthcare Price Transparency–Finally
  Pacific Research Institute, Forbes
  
• Divided Congress Doesn’t Have to Mean Gridlock Over Healthcare
  Pacific Research Institute, Newsmax
  
• Some State Hospitals Not Offering Pricing Transparency
  Pioneer Institute in The Center Square

• Perspective: Parents want more time with their kids. We should find ways to help them
  Sutherland Institute in Deseret News

• Limit Levy Votes to General Elections
  The Buckeye Institute in The Center Square