Stop Trashing Our Communities
Closing the Gaps in Los Angeles’s Municipal Waste Management System by Learning from Pacoima’s Community-led Responses Suzanne Caflisch, Irene Takako Farr, and Cassie Hoeprich, MPA,…
YSLPR Issue #2
Covid-19 and the Commercialized Body: Why the Pandemic Should Motivate A Rethinking of Sex Work Laws
STATEMENT OF RESEARCH NEED: Follow the Data: A Call for State and Local Research
Robert Inman, Professor of Finance, Economics, and Public Policy, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. To my mind there is no scarcity of important questions and…
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STATEMENT OF RESEARCH NEED: Research Is Needed on State-Tribal Tax Coordination
Alan D. Viard, Resident Scholar at AEI for tax and budget policy More than 500 federally recognized Native American tribes (including Alaska natives) are present…
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STATEMENT OF RESEARCH NEED: Research on State Preemption of Local Laws that Support Marginalized Communities
Anthony Gad, Director of Research at State Innovation Exchange (SiX) One tactic that corporate special interests have used to halt economic reforms supportive of working…
PRINT FEATURE: National Problem, Local Solution: Addressing the School-To-Prison Pipeline with an Increase in Minority Teachers
Tina Fletcher, University of Pennsylvania Education Policy PhD 2022; Trina Fletcher, Assistant Professor at Florida International University Although Arkansas’ official state nickname is the Land…
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: The Efficacy of Local Cigarette Excise Taxes in Virginia
Victoria Reese: William and Mary 2020 Between the years 2004 and 2012 the smoking prevalence in Virginia declined by 3.43%. Over the same period, significant…
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Protecting Healthcare Access in the Age of Trump: A Proposal for a State-Based Individual Mandate in New York
Sinead Hunt: Barnard 2020 In December 2017, the Trump administration eliminated the tax penalties associated with the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, repealing the requirement…
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: The Confederate Flag in Public Schools: A Tale of Two Flags
Andrew Ford: University of Pennsylvania Masters of Education Policy 2019 State and local policymakers face a dilemma with student speech. On the one hand, policymakers…
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MAYORAL SURVEY: Emerging Challenges
A YSLPR Interview (click to download) YSLPR: Please tell us about a policy issue that you anticipate will be challenging in the coming year. Is…
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