NCPA - Daily Policy Digest - Thursday, May 2, 2002

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Daily Policy Digest
Thursday, May 02, 2002

	Mexican program gave rural families $1 billion in benefits, and economists say the direct-payment approach is a model for U.S. foreign aid...
NEW YORK TIMES

	Lobbyists spent $570 million in 2000 to influence state legislators who rarely face conflict-of-interest rules....
CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY/NEW YORK TIMES

	College took 25 percent of poor families' income in 2000, up from 13 percent in 1980, new study shows....
NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND HIGHER EDUCATION/NEW YORK TIMES

	Bush pollution plan would cut emissions 70 percent over 10 to 15 years, and environmental specialists give it high marks....
NEW YORK TIMES

	Medicare+Choice covers a majority of Hispanic seniors and 40.3 percent of African-Americans....
BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION/WHITE HOUSE BULLETIN

	The $5 trillion Social Security trust fund cannot pay future benefits, according to former Congressional Budget Office director June O'Neill....
CATO INSTITUTE

	Patients treated by nurse practitioners, rather than doctors, are more satisfied with their care....
WebMD/BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL

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