The sample publications below from current and past reports reflect TRI’s commitment to objective and comprehensive research into contemporary policy issues involving private and public actors. The studies offer clear analysis of relevant data and information, and provide practical options and recommendations for future decision-making.


Executive Summaries:

Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)
Released on April 14, 2004, this study reviews the effects that the "stealth tax" has on millions of middle-class taxpayers in high-cost states, specifically California.


California Energy Crisis and Restructuring of the Market
Released in May 2005, this study looks at recent academic and legal findings to provide policymakers with new approaches to regulating energy markets.

Recent Studies:

Proposition 5 (NORA) and California: A Framework for Public Discussion
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There are disagreements over whether public policy regarding the use of drugs needs to be reformed and, if so, what types of reforms should be adopted. The initiative known as Proposition 5 formally mandates a particular rehabilitative approach to dealing with drug users in an effort to reduce the number of persons incarcerated in California State prisons.

The purpose of this report is to present a summary of heretofore unexplored issues that are contained in Proposition 5 as they relate to potential administrative and fiscal concerns for California. The report suggests that Californians consider a set of structural issues within Proposition 5 that may otherwise be lost in the more ardent debate over the relative failures and successes of punitive, rehabilitative and other approaches to drug related crimes and societal harms. The core finding of this report is as follows: irrespective of the relative merits of the changes implemented by Proposition 5, the proposition is structured to make its institutions and costs effectively irreversible.