Policy Research

Gov. Asa Hutchinson said one-third of the recommendations "are likely to be" practical, while one-third "might be" and the other one-third "may not be" feasible. Policy Foundation, 20th anniversary event, December 2015                                      (March 2019)...

(March 2019) Critics argue school choice benefits only the wealthy1 but records show most2 Arkansas private schools serve the middle-class, charging annual tuition rates less than the $6,781 state K-12 student foundation grant.3 Fayetteville Christian...

"Government, in order to be lean and effective, needs to be infused with market forces; less of a monopoly provider of services and more a broker of services in a competitive; and measured for accountability...

"Market-based economists have opposed the taxation of food for more than 200 years ... The outstanding example is France in the (late) 18th Century .... French economist A.R.J. Turgot (1727-1781) ... attempted to stop the French...

"State agencies are using consolidation to advance efficiencies.  The practice should be applied to other governmental units ..." Efficiency Project, 20161   (January 2019) Gov. Asa Hutchinson proposes reorganizing state government from 42 to 15 agencies, the...

(January 2019) Sixty-five percent (65%) of the nearly 4,800 K-12 students enrolled in Little Rock open-enrollment public charters in 2018-19 attend schools in zip codes with median household incomes less than $62,258, Arkansas Department of...

"Capital flight is an economic problem in Arkansas. Entrepreneurs have fled Arkansas, which has the highest top income tax rate (6.9) among border states. Three in the region ... do not levy an individual income...

(January 2019) Only 17 states have job creation rates1 greater than the U.S. average in the current economic expansion that is in its ninth year.2   Utah 29.6% Nevada 23.6% Colorado 23.4% Texas 23.1% Florida...

"There is significant evidence that reductions in marginal state tax rates encourage state economic growth ...Rates on productive behavior should be reduced." “Reduce the state's income tax.” Policy Foundation, Murphy Commission project, 1998 (January 30,...

  (December 2018) More K-12 students are participating in the Pulaski County school choice market in the current school year (2018-19) than total enrollment in three of four local public school districts, Arkansas Department of...