NCPA - Daily Policy Digest - Thursday, August 15, 2002

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Daily Policy Digest
Thursday, August 15, 2002

	Three-fourths of farm aid goes to corporate farmers, including billionaires like Ted Turner....
NCPA

	World growth slowed to 2 percent in 2001, in large part due to trade barriers and protectionism, analysts say....
WALL STREET JOURNAL

	Each job saved by steel tariffs costs $400,000 and 8 jobs in other steel consuming sectors according to a House hearing....
NCPA/WASHINGTON TIMES

	U.N. report gets globalization data wrong and the 1999 report distorts the record especially in the developing world....
NEW YORK TIMES

	Teacher turnover rate is 16 percent annually, making it the real cause of teacher "shortages"....
USA TODAY

	Computers haven't improved classroom performance, nor have they changed the ways teachers teach, new research has found....
PUBLIC INTEREST

	There are 100 pages of regulation over the beer market, most of which have nothing to do with preventing underage drinking....
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