NCPA - Daily Policy Digest - Monday, March 24, 2003

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Daily Policy Digest
Monday, March 24, 2003

	France and Germany spend over 60 percent of their defense budgets on pay and benefits, while the United States spends only 34.7 percent....
NCPA/WASHINGTON TIMES

	Federal employees bought higher-priced health insurance when tax subsidies lowered the effective cost....
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

	More than one-third of cities lost people ages 20-34 in the 1990s, while cities like Austin, Las Vegas, Dallas and Atlanta witnessed population explosions ....
WASHINGTON POST

	Workers preoccupied with the war have become less productive, experts say....
USA TODAY

	Insurers are charging airlines for war insurance when those carriers fly into countries bordering Iraq....
NEW YORK TIMES

	Many advances in battlefield medicine focus on devices and procedures to halt bleeding....
WALL STREET JOURNAL

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