Solutions from the States: This Week’s Policy Briefs

• Research from the Commonwealth Foundation shows how full practice nursing reforms lead to improved healthcare access and outcomes, often while lowering costs for the consumer.
  
• The Empire Center examined government spending on both Medicaid funded “personal care” and overtime payments to New York City workers, revealing numerous flaws that lead to both overspending and worsening results.
  
• Georgia Public Policy Foundation released new research on the ways in which impact fees drive up the cost of housing in the Peach State.
  
• With healthcare cost top of mind for so many, the Pacific Research Institute examined ways to improve access to affordable care for the most at risk patients.

Freedom Through the Courts

• The Mississippi Justice Institute, the litigative partner of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, filed suit to defend the state’s abortion ban. This lawsuit has received ample media coverage in outlets such as the Epoch Times, the Center Square and the Associated Press. 
  
• The Buckeye Institute filed amicus briefs in two cases this week. First, in the case of Allstates Refractory Contractors v. Walsh, they implored the courts to seek clarity from Congress on the authority of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Their second brief, in the case of Texas v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calls on the courts to stop a de-facto electric vehicle mandate.

Policy News from the States

Election Commentary

• The Badger Institute observed that compared to four years ago, the political atmosphere in Wisconsin is actually more suited to compromise and good policy than many would think.
  
• While many, especially in the media, tend to downplay or completely forget the results in local elections, California Policy Center reminded us that their consequences can be far reaching.
  
• Pacific Research Institute’s Chairman provided his insights on the results of the mid-terms, and what they’ll mean for free market policies moving forward.

Education

• Most NEA-Alaska Spending Goes to its staff, not members
  Alaska Policy Forum
  
• The number of parents missing work due to problems with childcare has skyrocketed since the pandemic
  Center of the American Experiment
  
• Mountain States Policy Center releases new video calling for Public School Transparency Act
  Mountain States Policy Center

Healthcare

• Consequences of Medicaid Expansion go beyond dollars and cents
  Alabama Policy Institute
  
• Long-term-care law might be changing again, and solvency is sought
  Washington Policy Center

Jobs & Economy

• NLRB Move Could Squash Workplace Democracy
  Americans for Fair Treatment
  
• Move over, California. Is Colorado the new land of opportunity?
  California Policy Center
  
• The Bureaucratic Erasure of Culture, Identity, and Freedom
  California Policy Center
  
• Magical Thinking Won’t Fill the Gas Tank
  Cascade Policy Institute
  
• Free State Foundation files comments criticizing the FTC’s “Commercial Surveillance and Data Security” proposed rulemaking
  Free State Foundation
  
• Does the federal government own too much land in the Mountain States?
  Mountain States Policy Center
  
• Washington Drivers will “see the tax they pay on gasoline almost double next year”
  Washington Policy Center
  
• Former IRS attorney “dumbfounded” by Washington’s capital gains income tax argument
  Washington Policy Center

Think Tanks in the News

• $11 billion was stolen from taxpayers in a massive fraud – will officials just ignore it? 
  Empire Center in The New York Post
  
• Colorado income tax cut measure wins big
  Independence Institute in The Center Square
  
• Colorado’s Tax Revolution Continues
  Independence Institute in National Review
  
• California’s misguided climate change priorities
  Pacific Research Institute in The Orange County Register
  
• The tax hike the General Assembly won’t fix
  Thomas Jefferson Institute in The Richmond Times-Dispatch
  
• Originalism Bolsters the Democratic Process by Checking Judges
  The Buckeye Institute in Bloomberg Law
  
• New Congress Should Empower People – Not Politicians – for Environmental Results
  Washington Policy Center in Real Clear Policy