Policy Research

(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...

"The most callused aspect of the current education monopoly in Arkansas is that it willingly and deliberately forces children--except those whose parents have wealth--to attend bad schools.” Policy Foundation report,11998   (December 2018) The Arkansas...

(November 2018) The Policy Foundation is joining with the Indiana-based Center for the Study of Liberty (CSL) to host a Nov. 15 dinner on the conversational topic "Poverty and Education."   CSL is "Building A...

"The Foundation encourages citizenship." Excerpt from the Policy Foundation's Mission Statement   (November 2018) On Nov. 27 the Policy Foundation hosted a Fiscal Policy Forum at Heifer Village in Little Rock to provide Arkansas citizens...

(October 2018) The Policy Foundation will host a fiscal policy forum Nov. 27  (10 a.m.-2 p.m.) at Heifer Village in Little Rock to examine ideas expected to be considered in the 92nd General Assembly (2019) of the...

  (September 2018) Utah leads the United States in jobs creation since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009, expanding payroll employment at a 28.4% rate versus the 14% national average, U.S. Bureau of...