Policy

Regional Resource

Fifteen Shades of State Funding: Untangling the Complexity of Public K-12 Funding Formulas in the South

Regional Resource by Senior Policy Analyst, Cody Allen State funding for public K-12 education is typically...
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Issue Brief

Lawsuits and Legislation: What’s Happening with Glyphosate-based Herbicides

Issue Brief by Senior Policy Analyst, Tom Opdyke In recent years, numerous lawsuits have been filed...
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Carbon Capture in the South: What It Is and What Southern States Are Doing

Regional Resource by Senior Policy Analyst, Tom Opdyke From Houston’s harbor to the banks of Lake...
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From Likes to Laws: State Legal Protections for Child Influencers

Issue Brief by Policy Analysts: Katie Lee and Erin Twomey Child influencers, sometimes referred to as...
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Issue Brief

The Changing Odds: Sports Betting’s Growing Presence in the South

Issue Brief by Policy Analyst, Katie Lee On May 14, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled...
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Saved by the Bell: State Approaches to Bring the Chronic Absenteeism Crisis to a Screeching Halt

Issue Brief by Senior Policy Analyst, Cody Allen Since 2018, the rate of chronic absenteeism nationwide...
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Reinforcing Our “Steel Magnolias”: How the South Is Combatting High Maternal Mortality Rates

Regional Resource by Policy Analyst, Erin Twomey The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate...
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Issue Brief

The Tort(oise) and What’s Fair: States Race to Debate Litigation Reform

Issue Brief by Senior Policy Analyst, Cody Allen “Tort (from Latin: torquere, to twist; tortus, twisted,...
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