• The NCPA and the Fraser Institute in Canada published the second annual report on “Economic Freedom in North America.” The report measures how economic freedom promotes growth in the 50 United States and 10 Canadian provinces. News reports on the analysis appeared in the Denver Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Denver Business Journal, the Salt Lake City Tribune and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/EconFreedNorthAm.pdf

• The NCPA published a brief analysis by NCPA President John C. Goodman, “Health Savings Accounts Will Revolutionize American Health Care,” on January 15. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba464/

• The NCPA published “Two Cheers for the Bush Health Plan,” authored by Goodman on January 29. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba465/.
• The differences in cost between the health plans proposed by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and President Bush are staggering and costly, especially with regard to insuring the uninsured, according to a brief analysis written by NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick and published March 18. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba468/ba468.pdf
  
• Even though the present value of the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare exceed $70 trillion, NCPA Senior Policy Analyst Matt Moore says in an NCPA brief analysis that repealing the payroll tax cap is a bad idea. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba470/
  
• Parson Malthus's predictions of unremitting poverty and mass starvation have proved incorrect, NCPA Adjunct Scholar and University of Oklahoma Professor David Deming says in an NCPA brief analysis; instead, food supplies have consistently grown faster than population due to modern technologies that Malthus could not have foreseen. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba469/

• Social Security does not reflect the needs of 21st century families and unfairly penalizes women for working, according to an NCPA brief analysis written by Moore and Research Assistants Anna Fredrick and Adrienne Aldridge. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba466/

• Wind power is expensive, doesn't deliver the environmental benefits it promises and imposes substantial environmental costs, according to an NCPA brief analysis written by Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba467/

• The Goldwater Institute in Phoenix released a report, “Getting Back to Work: Reforming Unemployment Insurance to Increase Employment,” in which NCPA Senior Fellow William Conerly suggested that the state of Arizona should restructure its unemployment insurance administrative policies to promote work.
  

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