Policy Research

"CPI-Expenditures Link. A short-term budgetary link should be established between the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and total operational expenditures by agencies." Arkansas Policy Foundation, Efficiency Project report (October 2016) Summary: Policymakers have advanced two ideas...

(December 2020) A report by the Hutchinson administration to a legislative panel estimates $57.6 million in savingsfrom last year's reorganization of state government. The report, which surveys efficiency efforts since July 2019 also cites a...

"Comprehensive tax reform reflects the idea that the state should raise only revenue needed to support core oressential state functions. Other dollars that would have been utilized to support a more expanded role for governmentare...

(December 2020) Nearly 100,000 students attend charter, home or private schools, or are eligible to participate in a public school choice program, state Department of Education and non-profit records show.1 The following 25 counties have...

The "Policy Foundation was established in 1995 as an independent research organization ... The Foundation has established the Efficiency Project ... (which) allows a nonpartisan, independent group of citizens to volunteer their time and efforts...

"CPI-Expenditures Link. A short-term budgetary link should be established between the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and total operational expenditures by agencies." Arkansas Policy Foundation, Efficiency Project report (October 2016) "As Governor, I would like to...

"The most callused aspect of the (Arkansas) education monopoly is that it willingly and deliberately forces children--except those whose parents have wealth--to attend bad schools. And it does so with financial resources taken from parents...

(October 2020) Four counties led Arkansas income ranks in the last decade, recording levels greater than the state average, according to federal data. The counties are Benton, Pulaski, Union and Arkansas. They were the only...

(September 2020) Arkansas' job creation rate topped 21 states in the national expansion that started in June 2009 and ended earlier this year in February,1 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)2 records show. Arkansas' 10.4% growthrate...

(September 2020) Arkansas' job creation rate topped 21 states in the national expansion that started in June 2009 and ended earlier this year in February,1 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)2 records show. Arkansas' 10.4% growthrate...