• If couples were to make marriage and divorce contracts, they would increase not only their welfare but that of their children, according to a new NCPA study written by Howard University Professor Stephen Baskerville. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st267/.
  
• The Bush administration’s proposals for new and improved saving incentives make good sense, according to a new NCPA brief analysis written by R. Glenn Hubbard, former chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba477/.
  
• If not reformed in a timely and responsible way, Social Security and Medicare will consume an ever-increasing portion of workers' incomes or the government must break its promises to future retirees, according to a brief analysis written by NCPA Senior Policy Analyst Matt Moore. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba476/

• Europe is a great place to visit, but don’t try and find a job there. According to a brief analysis by NCPA Senior Fellow William Conerly, America’s worst unemployment rate over the past 12 years has been better than Europe’s best rate. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba475/

• Social Security and Medicare benefits are on a course to crowd out funding for every other government program in the absence of significant tax increases, according to a new study co- authored by NCPA Senior Fellow and Social Security/Medicare Trustee Thomas R. Saving. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st266/

• The energy bill now under consideration in Congress offers at least some hope of increasing reliability on electrical power in the U.S., according to a new brief analysis written by NCPA E-Team Adjunct Scholar Robert Michaels. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba474/

• Curtailing urban sprawl may not solve many of America's urban problems because, according to a new brief analysis written by NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett and Research Associate Pam Villareal, market forces create villages as a result of consumer demand. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba473/

• Welfare reform legislation currently pending in Congress must strengthen work requirements, according to an NCPA brief analysis written by NCPA Publications Director Joe Barnett and Research Assistant Todd Gabel. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba472/

• NCPA Senior Fellow Bruce Bartlett said in a brief analysis published by the NCPA on April 8 that entitlement reform, especially of the Medicare system, is vitally necessary to reduce tax hikes. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba471/

• 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, says NCPA Adjunct Scholar and University of Oklahoma Professor David Deming 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/

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