Daily Policy Digest
| The Cruel Things Obama Is Doing to the Labor Market There was a huge shift to part-time employment in the fast-food industry beginning in January, says John C. Goodman, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Parent Trigger Laws Empower Parents for School Change Given the track record of public education, parent triggers empower parents to take a more active role in their child's education... |
| Parent Trigger: There's a Better Way The parent trigger is useful because it gets parents involved in their child's education, but it is doubtful that it will lead to long-term systematic changes... |
| Wind Farms Get Pass on Eagle Deaths More than 573,000 birds are killed by the country's wind farms each year, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles... |
| Hispanic College Enrollment Rates Pass White College Enrollment Rates Sixty-nine percent of Hispanic students who completed high school in 2012 enrolled in college the following October, compared with 67 percent of whites and 63 percent of blacks... |
| Exporting Natural Gas: Is it Beneficial? While politicians and corporations are worried about prices of natural gas inflating, it is not clear that allowing sales abroad would have a substantial impact on American purchasers of the commodity... |
| California Mulls Expanding Role for Nurse Practitioners Current California laws require that nurses treat a patient only after consulting a doctor, but some lawmakers are attempting to eliminate this requirement... |
| Texas and California: A Tale of Two Oil States Texas has more than doubled its oil output since 2005 and now pumps more than 2 million barrels a day; California's oil output is down 21 percent from 2001... |
| Regulations Reduce Community Bank Lending Regulations intended to keep another financial crisis from occurring are penalizing local community banks whose business models are not a threat to the financial system... |
| Federal Student Loan Programs Subsidize Waste From 1970 to 2010, the Pell Grant program expanded from 176,000 recipients to 9.6 million recipients... |
