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Webinar on public pensions investing in crypto, plus effort to bring back pensions fails in Alaska
1+ hour, 53+ min ago (364+ words) Topics " Pension Reform Articles, Research & Spotlights" News in Brief Quotable Quotes Data Highlight Reason Foundation in the News Contact the Pension Reform Help Desk Articles, Research & Spotlights Webinar: Crypto and Public Pensions'Risks, Rewards, and Fiduciary Duties Date, Time and Registration…...
Webinar on managing public debt, plus New York City's pension gimmick
4+ week, 2+ day ago (408+ words) Topics " Pension Reform Articles, Research & Spotlights" News in Brief Quotable Quotes Data Highlight Reason Foundation in the News Contact the Pension Reform Help Desk Webinar: How State and Local Governments Can Manage Their $5 Trillion in Debt State and local governments…...
Cal PERS Monitor: How the pension system piled up debt and could add more
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (396+ words) Topics " Government Reform " California The nation's largest public pension plan, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (Cal PERS), continues to be a major driver of the state's spending growth. In 2025, taxpayers, via government employers, including local governments, school districts, and…...
Research consistently shows e-cigarettes help smokers quit. When will U. S. policy catch up?
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (356+ words) Topics " Consumer Freedom " Vaping, E-Cigarettes A sweeping new overview of the evidence on e-cigarettes and smoking cessation, published in the journal'Addiction'by researchers at the University of Oxford and Queen Mary University of London, should put to rest any remaining doubts…...
Why isn't the Food and Drug Administration celebrating the decline in youth tobacco use?
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (577+ words) Topics " Consumer Freedom The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently quietly posted a ZIP file on its website containing the 2025 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), the federal government's benchmark study for tracking tobacco use among kids. Each year, senior FDA…...
Pension Reform News: How state public pension systems rank on key health metrics
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (576+ words) Topics " Pension Reform Articles, Research & Spotlights" News in Brief Quotable Quotes on Pension Reform Data Highlight Reason Foundation in the News Contact the Pension Reform Help Desk Articles, Research & Spotlights How State Public Pension Systems Rank on Key Health Metrics…...
How every state's public pension system ranks
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (788+ words) Topics " Pension Reform Reason Foundation's 2025 Pension Solvency and Performance Report ranks every state's pension system across five dimensions'funded status, investment performance, contribution adequacy, asset allocation risk, and the probability of meeting assumed returns'based on the latest fiscal year data from…...
Alabama's unrealistic pension assumptions are putting the state in debt
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (380+ words) Topics " Pension Reform In 2021, the state's funded ratio was 75. 2 percent, before dropping to 59. 7 percent the next year. While Reason estimated this figure would recover to 72. 7 percent in 2025, the volatility indicates a system that is heavily exposed to market swings. The…...
Technology can help shift overdose prevention and response to more effective harm-reduction strategies
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (258+ words) Topics " Harm Reduction However, to maximize this promise, it's important to remove barriers to innovation and adoption. In practice, this includes scaling tools like drug-checking technologies, digital overdose-prevention platforms, and emerging artificial intelligence (AI)-based prediction systems that can detect…...
Frequently asked questions on public pension investment'in cryptocurrency and digital assets
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (705+ words) Topics " Pension Reform In this post, we address a few basic questions, as well as more detailed ones, about the report and the emerging policy issues related to cryptocurrencies and digital assets. The report recommends best practices for state treasurers…...