The American food supply chain is at risk due to increased farmworker shortages. This new brief explains the issues and suggests policy options to meet the needs of, and for, these vital workers.

Director, Center for Health Policy, L.E. and Virginia Simmons Senior Fellow in Health Policy, Huffington Fellow in Child Health Policy ...

With the 2023 debt-ceiling negotiations under way, a new issue brief from John Diamond, director of the Center for Public Finance, and Autumn Engebretson looks at the effectiveness of the Budget ...

In late July, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar delivered a bleak economic outlook for the state’s economy: the amount of general revenue funds available for the current biennium is expected to be $11.5 ...

Is global oil demand going to rise or fall? And are forecasters analysts or advocates? Recently, variances have increased across long- and short-term oil market forecasts from major institutions — ...

In this commentary, experts Rekha Lakshmanan and Kirstin R.W. Matthews along with coauthor Elizabeth Chen examine the implications of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s replacement of the U.S. vaccine advisory ...

It is with profound sadness that the Baker Institute for Public Policy honorary chair, James A. Baker III, notes the passing of Ambassador Hushang Ansary — a distinguished diplomat and a lifetime ...

Constitutional reforms currently underway in Mexico will have significant consequences for both competition and regulation within the country’s energy sector. A new report from the Center for the U.S.

If We Can Find Information by Asking GenAI, Who Needs the Web?The World Wide Web (Web) emerged as a new medium in the mid-1990s. It was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at the European Organization for ...

Director, Center for Health Policy, L.E. and Virginia Simmons Senior Fellow in Health Policy, Huffington Fellow in Child Health Policy ...

In this episode of “The Two-Handed Economist,” John W. Diamond and Bill King discuss the 2026 Social Security Trust Fund report, examining the program’s long-term financial outlook, the history of ...

The Honorable David M. Satterfield is the director of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and leads the institute's Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East. He is also the ...