2009 September – Backgrounder No. 62 – “A Cost-Effective Bridge to Florida’s Energy Future” 
Posted 09/01/2009
2009 September – Backgrounder 61 – The Prognosis for National Health Insurance: A Florida Perspective
Posted 09/01/2009
Foreword Robert F. Sanchez, Policy Director, The James Madison Institute
2009 September – TalkingPoints – Backgrounder 61 – The Prognosis for National Health Insurance: A Florida Perspective
Posted 09/01/2009
2009 March – Backgrounder No. 60 – Restoring the Private Property-Insurance Market to Reduce Florida’s Risk of Financial Insolvency
Posted 03/15/2009
Foreword By Robert F. Sanchez Policy Director, The James Madison Institute As Florida faces a worsening crisis involving property insurance
2009 March – Backgrounder No. 59 – Creating a Public/Private Partnership for Florida’s Conservation Land Managment
Posted 03/01/2009
Executive Summary Florida’s state-owned conservation lands comprise more than 6,000 square miles and more than 11 percent of the state’s land area. Florida spends more than $220 million a year to manage these lands. Even the most conservative estimates suggest that the state’s per-acre cost of land management appears substantially higher than the costs of …
2009 February – Backgrounder No. 58 – Florida’s Fiscal Future: Tax and Expenditure in Uncertain Times
Posted 02/01/2009
Executive Summary • Despite considerable problems the economic downturn presents for Florida, the state government alone can do little to improve economic conditions because the problem is national and global in scale. The Florida Legislature should think in terms of fiscal conservatism, not fiscal stimulus, in the face of current economic problems. • State policy …
2008 Sept – Backgrounder No. 57 – Phase II of Florida’s Plan for Energy and Climate Change: Avoiding the Mistakes Made by Others
Posted 09/01/2008
2008 July – Backgrounder No. 56 – An Evaluation of the Pilot Project to Reform Florida’s Medicaid Program
Posted 07/01/2008
Two factors caused Florida to act decisively in 2006 to reform its Medicaid program beginning with a pilot project in Broward County and the Jacksonville area. The purpose of the pilot project was to provide policy makers with an opportunity to obtain a fair evaluation the reforms being tested. The experiment was cleared to proceed …
2008 March – Backgrounder – Lost Opportunity: An Empirical Analysis of How Vouchers Affected Florida Public Schools
Posted 03/24/2008
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The impact of Florida’s “A+” accountability program, which until 2006 included a voucher program for chronically failing schools, on public school performance has been extensively studied. The results have consistently shown a positive effect on academic outcomes in Florida public schools. However, no empirical research has been done on the impact of the …
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