NCPA - Daily Policy Digest - Monday, December 30, 2002

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS
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Daily Policy Digest
Monday, December 30, 2002

	Discriminatory federal laws hurt minorities, but are harder to attack than racist Jim Crow laws of the pre-civil rights era, says Bruce Bartlett....
NCPA

	10 percent of Northeast corridor jobs are in health care, adding 50,000 jobs since 2000 while others have lost 200,000....
NEW YORK TIMES

	Security requirements could send foreign-born doctors home and leave rural areas without physicians....
WALL STREET JOURNAL

	Security agencies are slow to hire Arabic speakers because due to background checks....
WASHINGTON POST

	Drug prices rise 2 to 3 percent yearly in the United States, while they fall in Europe due to government price controls....
WALL STREET JOURNAL

	Africa is resisting genetically modified food even though it could fight famine, and is caught in a U.S.-Europe political tug of war....
WALL STREET JOURNAL

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