Policy Research

"The COVID-19 crisis is challenging the private, government and non-profit sectors to provide assistance in Arkansas ... One goal is economic: expand the supply of medical services in response to increased demand from individuals."Jonesboro Sun,...

(July 2020) The Policy Foundation's Efficiency Project (2015-16) , funded with support from private foundations represented an investment in Arkansas' economic future. Savings from the Project and subsequent efforts to transform and reorganize Arkansas state...

(June 8, 2020) The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the official arbiter of the U.S. business cycle announced today that the economy entered a recession in February, according to a release from the Cambridge,MA.,...

(May 11, 2020) The longest economic expansion in U.S. history ended in February, a Policy Foundation analysis of four coincident indicators shows. The Foundation's findings were published yesterday by TalkBusiness,  an Arkansas site that reports...

(April 2020) A 5th generation Arkansan, Tim Griffin was raised in Magnolia and has served as Arkansas lieutenant governor since 2015.1 A fiscal conservative, Lt. Gov. Griffin spoke at the Policy Foundation's 20th anniversary event...

"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...

(March 2020) Arkansas' top income tax rate declined from 6.9% to 6.6% but is still second-highest in the southeast region, trailing only South Carolina (7.0%), according to records from the Federation of State Tax Administrators.1...

(January 2020) Three years ago, a government-imposed monopoly existed in Little Rock, interfering with anentrepreneur and limiting consumer choice to one taxicab company. Today, more competition exists thanks to a successful legal challenge1 handled by...

"The first problem is state spending that exceeds U.S. and regional averages on a per capita basis." Arkansas Policy Foundation, February 2019 memo (January 2020) Total Operating Expenditures for the State of Arkansas increased $1.49...

"A short-term budgetary link should be established between the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and total operational expenditures by agencies." Policy Foundation Efficiency Project recommendation, 2016 (December 2019) Social services operating expenditures totaled $8.1 billion (FY2017),...