Archives: Lee Schalk / Publications

Archives: Lee Schalk / Publications

  • Labor Reform Policy: 50 State Factsheets image

    Labor Reform Policy: 50 State Factsheets

    This publication provides a snapshot of the labor policies in each state in order to give workers, businesses, and lawmakers a resource to understand how these policies are inhibiting or protecting…

  • Other Post-Employment Benefit Liabilities, 6th Edition image

    Other Post-Employment Benefit Liabilities, 6th Edition

    Other Post-Employment Liabilities, 6th Edition measures unfunded OPEB liabilities, now totaling over $1.14 trillion, just under $3,500 for every man, woman, and child in the United States. Other post-employment benefits…

  • Essential Policy Solutions for 2024 image

    Essential Policy Solutions for 2024

    Since 1973, the American Legislative Exchange Council has been at the forefront of producing and exchanging trusted policy solutions that benefit all Americans. For 50 years and counting, ALEC has…

  • Balancing State & Local Power image

    Balancing State & Local Power

    Our Founding Fathers outlined their vision of how the government should be structured in the Federalist Papers and later enshrined it in the U.S. Constitution, hoping their design allowed each…

  • The ALEC Index of State Education Freedom: A 50-State Guide to Parental Empowerment image

    The ALEC Index of State Education Freedom: A 50-State Guide to Parental Empowerment

    For nearly 25 years, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has published the Report Card on American Education, ranking the states based on a variety of performance indicators in K-12…

  • 50 Years of Trusted Policy Solutions image

    50 Years of Trusted Policy Solutions

    For 50 years, ALEC has stood as the bedrock for state legislators who believe in free market principles that uphold limited government and amplify our Founding Fathers’ vision of federalism.

  • Unaccountable and Unaffordable, 7th Edition image

    Unaccountable and Unaffordable, 7th Edition

    Unfunded state pension liabilities total $6.96 trillion or just under $21,000 for every man, woman, and child in the United States. As noted in this report last year, the total…

  • TABOR Turns 30: Thirty Years of Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights image

    TABOR Turns 30: Thirty Years of Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights

    What States Can Learn from the Gold Standard for State Spending Control

  • State Bonded Obligations, 4th Edition image

    State Bonded Obligations, 4th Edition

    State governments borrow for a myriad of reasons and issue various types of bonded obligations. Today, their total bonded liabilities exceed $1.23 trillion, representing just over $3,700 per person nationally.

  • Other Post-Employment Benefit Liabilities, 5th Edition image

    Other Post-Employment Benefit Liabilities, 5th Edition

    Unfunded state Other Post-Employment Benefit liabilities total $959 billion or $3,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States.

  • Unaccountable and Unaffordable, 6th Edition image

    Unaccountable and Unaffordable, 6th Edition

    Unfunded state pension liabilities total $8.28 trillion or just under $25,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States.

  • State Tax Cut Roundup, 2020 image

    State Tax Cut Roundup, 2020

    The 2020 state legislative sessions ended with four states enacting substantial tax relief for their citizens that was sufficient to qualify for State Tax Cut Roundup. The COVID-19 pandemic made…

  • State Bonded Obligations, 2020 image

    State Bonded Obligations, 2020

    State governments borrow for a myriad of reasons and issue various types of bonded obligations. Today, their total bonded liabilities exceed $1.25 trillion, representing just over $3,800 per person nationally.

  • Unaccountable and Unaffordable, 2020 image

    Unaccountable and Unaffordable, 2020

    Our latest edition of this report finds that unfunded state pension liabilities total $5.82 trillion or $17,748 for every man, woman and child in the United States. State governments are…

  • Other Post-Employment Benefit Liabilities, 2020 image

    Other Post-Employment Benefit Liabilities, 2020

    The Continuing Need for OPEB Reform

  • State Tax Cut Roundup, 2019 image

    State Tax Cut Roundup, 2019

    The 2019 state legislative sessions ended with six states enacting substantial tax relief for their citizens that was sufficient to qualify for State Tax Cut Roundup. Of the six states…

  • State Bonded Obligations, 2019 image

    State Bonded Obligations, 2019

    States issue a diverse array of bonded obligations, with a range of obligation strength, revenue sources, debt service schedules and other factors. This study collects and analyzes the bonded obligations…

  • Other Post-Employment Benefit Liabilities, 2019 image

    Other Post-Employment Benefit Liabilities, 2019

    The Continuing Need for OPEB Reform

  • State of the States: An Analysis of the 2019 Governors’ Addresses image

    State of the States: An Analysis of the 2019 Governors’ Addresses

    The latest entry of the State of the States publication breaks down each governor’s “state of the state” address and identifies strong and weak policy prescriptions within. The publications also explore each states…