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For-Profit Utilities Are Gouging Customers. Utilities Earn Too Much. There’s a Fix.

By Mark Ellis & Joel Hornstein

Utilities have long been considered one of the safest investments you can make. Why? Because the government essentially guarantees their profits, year after year, regardless of how well or poorly the utility...

8 days ago
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Welcome to the Annoyance Economy

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In this week’s Substack, Chad Maisel and Neal Mahoney show us the vast scope of the annoyance economy – the $165 billion Americans lose every year to money spent and time wasted navigating unnecessary...

23 days ago
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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Bidders

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In this week’s Substack, Marina Nitze dives into the nuts and bolts of procurement policy. She provides powerful evidence for why so many Americans are right to be skeptical of the way government works and...

a month ago
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States Can Get More Out of the Grid They Already Have

Electricity bills have been climbing for years, and people have noticed. Nominal residential electricity prices are up 33% since 2019, and one in six American households is now behind on their energy bill. Ask utility regulators why, and th...

2 months ago
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The State Budget Playbook Nobody Asked For (But Everyone Needs)

By Wendy Edelberg

Last week, The States Forum held its third policy accelerator in Baltimore. The goal as always was to bring together people with different perspectives to craft actionable ideas that policymakers can use to address challe...

2 months ago
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  • Michael Laskawy

    Editor-in-Chief, The States Forum

  • Marc J. Dunkelman

    Senior Fellow, Searchlight Institute; Fellow, Watson School at Brown University's Watson School; Author, "Why Nothing Work: Who Killed Progress--And How to Bring It Back."

  • Jane

    Energy and climate politics and policy. Formerly White House Climate, Executive Director of Blue Horizons Foundation, Stripe Climate, Hewlett Foundation, Spitzer Trust. PhD UC Berkeley.

  • Brinda Adhikari

    An award-winning journalist, producer and host.

  • Craig Spencer

    ER Doctor | Ebola Survivor | Public Health & Humanitarian Response | Historical Determinants of Public Health at Brown SPH | Member CFR | Emmy Award Winner\ud83c\udfc6

  • Marina Nitze

    Author, Hack Your Bureaucracy and Crisis Engineering

  • Neale Mahoney

    Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).

  • Chad Maisel

    Chad is the executive director of Project 2029

  • Searchlight Institute

    Disrupt rigidity. Think Big. Spark a Realignment.

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