NCPA - Daily Policy Digest - Monday, July 8, 2002

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Daily Policy Digest
Monday, July 8, 2002

	Economic data on corporate profits are more reliable than financial statements, says Bruce Bartlett....
NCPA

	Broadband would cure the telecommunications slump if the technology could be unleashed, observers say....
DISCOVERY INSTITUTE/WALL STREET JOURNAL

	Data used to make laws can now be challenged, thanks to a law that goes into effect in October....
WALL STREET JOURNAL

	43 percent of the U.S. population has had a mental illness, claim researchers, and much of it is linked to high drug and alcohol consumption....
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

	Three-strikes laws do have a deterrent effect, researchers say, contradicting flawed earlier studies' findings....
JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES

	A $100 billion deficit hasn't stopped pork barrel spending, while the greatest need is Social Security and Medicare reform....
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