Texas vs. Arkansas: Policy Smackdown
Arkansas Republicans in 2015 enacted school choice, a policy their Texas counterparts considered but did not approve.
School Choice Reaches a Tipping Point
Arkansas’s recent enactment of a school-choice voucher law is highly symbolic. As the 25th state to adopt school choice, Arkansas became the tipping point in the national debate about the ...
Expansion, Year Seven
Last Friday’s employment report, like the latest GDP reading, is more bad news for bears, partisan and perpetual. Payrolls increased by 94,000 in November, led by gains in professional and ...
The Biggest Tax Cut in Arkansas History
The people of Arkansas are enjoying the first months of the biggest tax cut in state history, a 50 percent reduction in the sales tax on groceries. A non-dynamic state estimate found ...
“Wishin’ and Hopin’ for a Recession”
It’s not that difficult these days to find media outlets promoting the notion that the U.S. economy is in a recession, when in fact it is not. That was one ...
Blue-State Employment Blues
Bears and partisans are exuberant about the August employment report, which recorded a loss of 4,000 jobs in a labor market that employs 138 million. Employment, according to the Bureau ...
Bearish on Bonds
San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds is now only a couple of home runs away from eclipsing the career record of 755 set by Hank Aaron. Under normal circumstances, that 756th ...
Motorists Should Decide What They Drive . . .
According to travel agency AAA, approximately 32.1 million Americans journeyed in a motor vehicle during the Memorial Day weekend. That’s a 1.8 percent increase over last year’s mark (thanks to ...
A Texarkana Tax Tale
State Line Road is the boundary that separates the Arkansas and Texas sides of Texarkana, a border town that is sometimes described as “the Gateway to the American Southwest.” State ...
Cowboy-Up Economics
‘Cowboy up” is western slang for facing your problems like a man, and it applies very well to the states that are generating high rates of job creation by way ...