Policy Research

"Arkansas would benefit from comprehensive, pro-growth reform; Arkansans are not under-taxed; taxes and rates do matter to entrepreneurs ..." Policy Foundation Mission Statement (February 2023) Past Policy Foundation research noted a reduction in Arkansas' top...

"The experiment, termed a regulatory sandbox, is a set of rules that allow businesses, usually within a specificindustry, to test themselves in a market without being subject to usual regulations." Policy Foundation."A sandbox to create...

(February 2023) Arkansas legislators have approved a bill to ban local governments from enacting an income tax. House Bill 1026 (sponsor: State Rep. David Ray of Maumelle) was approved by the House, 79-10, in late...

"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.” Arkansas Policy Foundation, 1998 (December 2022) Nearly 110,000...

(November 2022) The Policy Foundation sponsored a public forum on the issue of dictionaries and literacy on Nov. 4at Lyon College in Batesville. The forum featured a keynote talk by Lyon Assistant Professor of Elementary...

(September 2022) Per capita personal income is higher in Tennessee and Texas counties than in adjacent Arkansasborder areas, according to U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) data. Payroll Employment  States without an income tax led...

"Arkansas would benefit from comprehensive, pro-growth reform; Arkansans are not under-taxed; taxes and rates do matter to entrepreneurs; dynamic scoring of tax changes and effects provides benefits." Arkansas Policy Foundation Mission Statement (August 2022) Arkansas...

(August 5, 2022) Past Arkansas Policy Foundation research memos have identified cyclical turns in the U.S. economy prior to official announcements from the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee, the leading arbiterwithin the economics profession. Arkansas...

(June 2022) Policymakers have proposed phasing-out the Arkansas income tax, which generates about $4 billion in annual revenues. The Arkansas capital gains tax has generated between $54.7 million and $115.9 million in annual revenues in...

(May 2022) Nonfarm payroll employment is the broadest economic indicator at the state level. Utah had a higher jobs creation rate than any state in the last economic expansion, according to a Policy Foundation analysis...