Daily Policy Digest

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

• The Human Capital Imperative: Bringing More Minds to America

  Immigrants accounted for well over 50 percent of the growth in employment in STEM-related fields between 2003 and 2008...

• Health Reform Law Repeats Failed Policies

  Government mandates for required health care provisions have grown from only a handful in the 1960s to 2,156 as of 2010...

• When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens

  A study of gun-related self-defense in the 1990s found that there were somewhere between 830,000 and 2.45 million defensive gun uses per year in the United States...

• Department of the Interior: Proposing Spending Cuts

  The total net outlay for the Department of Interior totals $8 billion...

• America's Flawed, Outdated Trade Policy

  A policy favoring domestic companies over foreign will slowly degrade the benefits that many foreign companies bring to American workers when they shift their operations to our shores...