In this Guide to the Issues, API breaks down the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Texas. Texas, along with twenty-five other states, challenged President Obama’s far-reaching executive action on immigration. The Supreme C ...
Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
In this Guide to the Issues, API breaks down the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. Abigail Fisher, a white student who was denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin, challenged the u ...
The Alabama Prison Transformation Initiative Act
In this latest Guide to the Issues, the Alabama Policy Institute breaks down Governor Bentley's prison-reform plan, the Alabama Prison Transformation Initiative Act. This bill has made it halfway through the Alabama Legislature, and could be passed by th ...
A Review of the AUM Report on the Legalization of Gambling in Alabama
In April of last year, the Institute for Accountability and Government Efficiency at Auburn University at Montgomery released a report on gambling that has been, and continues to be, widely cited and publicized. The AUM report—with its dubious predic ...
Statewide Amendment 1: Judicial Retirement Reform
In this latest Guide to the Issue, API breaks down Statewide Amendment 1, which would make cost-saving changes to the retirement plans of future judges and district attorneys. Alabama's Judicial Retirement Fund is currently only 58% funded. Alabama taxpa ...
Reforming Teacher Tenure in Alabama
In this study, Reforming Teacher Tenure in Alabama, author Andrew A. Yerbey describes the origins of teacher tenure and explains its present problems, and then offers four reforms. The goal of these reforms is, as the study notes, “so that all students ar ...
Infographic: Defined Benefit Plans Explained
Public pensions systems across the country are struggling with lower than expected investment returns. Just this morning, AL.com reported that investments supporting Alabama's Teachers' Retirement System earned a 1.04% rate of return. As currently structu ...
Infographic: Medicaid Expansion in Alabama
In this latest By the Numbers, API examines the dollars and cents of Medicaid expansion in Alabama. Recently, this debate took a strange (yet predictable) turn when Governor Bentley's Health Care Improvement Task Force called for the expansion of Medicaid ...
Michigan v. EPA
In this latest Guide to the Issue, API breaks down the Supreme Court's decision in Michigan v. EPA. Twenty-one states and energy industry groups sued the EPA over a burdensome rule that tightened the amount of mercury and other pollutants t ...
Infographic: King v. Burwell
Could Alabamians benefit from a ruling against the Affordable Care Act? A ruling in favor of the plaintiffs in this case would give the Republican-run Congress its first real opportunity to deliver on campaign promises to "repeal and replace Obamacare." ...