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State Retirement System Losses Prompt Merger Call

  “The Review Team recommends that management of Arkansas’ five Retirement Systems be consolidated under one agency.” (Arkansas Policy Foundation, 1998) Investment losses by the Arkansas State Police Retirement System have led a state Senator to suggest merging the system, a proposal first made by the Murphy Commission, a Policy Foundation project in 1998. The […]

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POLICY FOUNDATION RENEWS CALL FOR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS

(November 2007) The Policy Foundation, in light of monthly revenue reports since the July 1 grocery tax cut is renewing its 1998 and 2006 proposals to subject any state tax cuts to a process of dynamic analysis. The Murphy Commission, a Policy Foundation project, recommended in 1998 that all •tax proposals should be submitted to […]

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Arkansas 2005-2006 School District Rankings

Author: Mark Witkowski July 2007 Summary: This study relies on Spring 2006 testing data fromArkansas students taking the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills to evaluate the performance of 251 K-12 public school districts. Using a standard distribution, 14 districts earned A or A- grades; 61 districts received 8+, B or 8- grades; 111 districts earned […]

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Achieving 100 Percent

ACHIEVING 100 PERCENT in order for Arkansas to move from a low-wage to a high-wage economy, the state needs to decte8se ma,gina/ tax rares… In orcter to attract (high-income) WOrkers to Arkansas.• (Murphy Commission, 1998)   (June 2007) A group of Arkansas business and communityleaders have started a project with the ambitious goal of increasing […]

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