NCPA - Daily Policy Digest - Thursday, October 03, 2002

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Daily Policy Digest
Thursday, October 03, 2002

	Work lifts even minimum wage mothers above poverty, note observers, showing that welfare reform works....
USA TODAY

	Hostile takeovers could prevent corporate scandals, but government rules make them hard to pull off, say experts....
WALL STREET JOURNAL

	Violence killed 1.6 million in 2000, according to research on 70 countries....
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION/WALL STREET JOURNAL

	Federal regulations protect a fly, and stop a California town from cleaning up a garbage dump....
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

	There is an 80 percent chance oil exports will be disrupted within two years due to rising Middle East tensions a new report predicts....
BUSINESS WEEK

	Returns on primary education are less than 1 percent per year, but rise in college, say researchers....
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