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The Cicero Institute
Public Policy Offices
Austin, Texas 1,562 followers
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About us
The Cicero Institute works on federal, state, and local domestic policy issues, including healthcare, education, regulatory reform, workforce, criminal justice, transportation, and housing. We are interested in policy frameworks that spur innovators to solve public challenges and allow the best ideas to win.
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- Public Policy Offices
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Austin, Texas
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2016
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Austin, Texas, US
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The new Trump administration has a generational opportunity to expunge anti-merit identity politics that have infected and disabled so many American institutions and to bring back merit. Red state legislators and governors: the electorate is on our side. The law and courts are on our side. Administrators tied to woke institutions want you to be soft, but your duty to our civilization is calling. Check out our founder Joe Lonsdale’s latest piece on why we need to fight for merit everywhere it's under attack in Fox News Opinion. The full piece is in the link in the first comment.
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What does political courage look like in action? What does it mean to stand up to special interests? And what are the fights we must take on — and win — to keep America free and prosperous? The Cicero Institute’s founder Joe Lonsdale spoke with Kevin Stitt for Governor of Oklahoma at our recent Courage Awards about how he succeeded in getting real help to the homeless and mentally ill, and why he vetoed a pension increase for police officers. Stitt also explains how woke nonsense and cronyism manifest even in a deep red state — and how to fight it; why politics shouldn't be a career profession; and how he succeeded in passing one of the boldest school choice programs in the nation. Oklahoma has become one of the nation's fastest-growing states under his leadership, and you'll see why in this conversation. Listen at the link in the first comment.
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Recently, The Foundation for American Innovation and the Antonin Scalia Law School’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State published Congress after Chevron: Legislative Responses to Changing Deference Doctrines. This features new papers that address the challenges and opportunities Congress faces after the overturning of Chevron deference. Included is "Delegation-Dependent Deference: Reinforcing State and Federal Separation of Powers and Avoiding Loper Limbo by Adopting Delegation-Dependent Deference” by Cicero’s Jonathan Wolfson and Tanner Jones. Find a link to the full publication in the first comment.
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President-elect Trump has promised to move people living on the streets into shelters. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says she’s willing to work on bipartisan solutions—which will be critical, considering her city has an estimated 46,000 homeless people. While some argue that the status quo of leaving unsheltered homeless to camp on the streets is the more humane approach, Cicero’s public safety director Devon Kurtz explained to the Los Angeles Times that designated camping sites are not only safer but also provide a more empathetic solution for homeless people. Designated camping sites make it possible for services to be brought directly to those who need them. “It’s a lot easier to do that, and really the only way you’ll be able to do that, is if everyone is in one place,” he said. Read the full piece at the link in the first comment.
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From coast to coast, governors in more than 24 states have signed either executive orders or legislation to remove degree requirements for jobs during the last two years–as you can see on the map. But the question is, will the public sector change their hiring practices and put pen to paper, or is this just a good news headline? State leaders need to take executive action by working with their cabinet secretaries and teams to implement meaningful reforms that even the playing field for skilled workers applying for public-sector jobs. Cicero’s experts Jonathan Wolfson and Stacey (Kraus) G. have the details on what state leaders need to do at the link 🔗 in the first comment.
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Where there is untold waste and inefficiency at the federal level, states have a genuine opportunity to lead the way and discover new ways of hiring, retaining, and rewarding talent to make government work better to the benefit of all taxpayers, those who receive government services, and even government employees themselves. Cicero’s Michael Brickman has three things states–and the federal government–need to focus on to restore accountability. 1. Staff based on merit 2. Reform staff evaluations to make meaningful cash awards and promotions available to the best performers 3. Eliminate perennial poor performers 🔗Read more at the link in the first comment.
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American prisons and jails are overcrowded, probation officers and parole supervisors have unmanageable caseloads, and structural failures have fostered generational cycles of crime and incarceration. Earned time credits encourage rehabilitation, improve public safety, and reduce strain on overloaded parole and probation officers. Learn more about this solution at the link in the first comment.
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For decades, the U.S. federal government has dominated the country’s response to homelessness via its policy response known as Housing First. It has been a disaster. The federal government’s preoccupation with Housing First is unlikely to change quickly. This reality leaves states with the onus to move their communities in a different direction using the funding and policy levers available to their legislatures and executives. Find out how states can create pressure in certain areas and leverage federal funds to foster state-level innovation in their approaches to homelessness in this new report by Devon Kurtz. The 🔗 link is in the first comment.