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Union membership rates expose need for recertification
This article was originally published by the Reno Gazette-Journal. Each summer, my organization requests, pursuant to Nevada’s Public Records Act, a series of records from local governments across the state…
Nevada government pay gap highest in the nation, new data shows
When measured as a percentage of private-sector earnings, Nevada local government workers were by far the highest paid in the nation last year, according to newly released Census data. Last…
PERS lawsuit timeline: 2011-2018
Update: We have prevailed! Despite receiving nearly $2 billion in taxpayer funding annually, the Public Employees’ Retirement System of Nevada (PERS) has spent years — and hundreds of thousands of…
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Nevada Policy again offering $3,000 'Freedom Scholarship' for graduating Clark County student
The Nevada Policy Research Institute is once again offering a $3,000 Professor R.S. Nigam & NPRI Freedom Scholarship to a graduating Clark County high school student who demonstrates a passion…
Falsehoods, misinformation dominate PERS Secrecy Bill hearing
Last Friday, the Senate Government Affairs Committee held a hearing for the PERS Secrecy Bill (SB224). The bill would overturn existing Nevada law by making secret the names of those who…
SB224 Testimony (PERS Secrecy)
SB224 Testimony – Senate Government Affairs Committee March 1, 2019 1:00 pm My name is Robert Fellner, and I am the policy director for the Nevada Policy…