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(December 2017) Arkansas’ top income tax rate (6.9%)1 is the second-highest in the 12-state southeast region,2 trailing only...

  (October 2017) The Arkansas Policy Foundation and Reason Foundation cordially invite you to a panel...

“Define and implement a system of performance-based pay for all state employees.” Murphy Commission, “Making Arkansas’ State...

  Facilities Partnership funding is distributed in an inefficient manner. Policy Foundation Efficiency Project, Second Report,...

“Analysis of these themes and issues has led to larger findings related to statewide issues and...

(June 2017) Tom Easterly, a Murphy Commission Education Team volunteer who later played a role in...

(July 2017) Management consultants conducted efficiency reviews in Kansas, Louisiana, and North Carolina this decade, at costs...

  “Certain funds are not being distributed to low-income K-12 school districts as originally intended.”  Policy Foundation...

  “There is significant evidence that reductions in marginal state tax rates encourage state economic growth...

“Formal or informal oversight for these recommendations and others should rest with an individual or team...