Daily Policy Digest
| School Choice Essential Element in Learning The public school system tries to address student diversity by creating options within large, mall-like campuses, says John Merrifield, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Battling Blight in Detroit Between 2000 and 2010, the city of Detroit lost 237,500 residents, or 25 percent of its population... |
| Medicare Cuts under ObamaCare Will Affect Low-Income Seniors Most Low-income seniors will see an estimated 7 percent to 8 percent reduction in their Medicare Advantage benefits in 2014... |
| Sequester Cuts Highlight Government Inefficiency The $2.8 billion cut on education spending because of the sequester represents just 0.6 percent of the $820 billion government will spend on education... |
| Increased Higher Education Spending Benefits Construction In 2012, $3.7 billion worth of student housing projects traded hands, which was double the previous year's total... |
| Fracking Could Reduce Budget Deficit Increasing natural gas production would shrink our trade deficit and reduce the budget deficit, says Bob McTeer, a distinguished fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| ObamaCare Taxes Will Affect Us All The total tax burden of ObamaCare is now estimated at $1.058 trillion -- a steep increase from the initial $569 billion estimate produced at the time of the passing of the law... |
| Obama's Alternative Sequester Plan Is Horribly Unbalanced Including the fiscal cliff deal and ObamaCare, Obama's alternative plan to sequestration would result in a total of $2.6 trillion in new taxes or other revenues and only $6 billion in true spending cuts... |
| What Surgeons Leave Behind Costs Some Patients Dearly More than 12 times per day, a surgeon will sew up a patient with a sponge or instrument left in a patient's body... |
| Pesticide Unfairly Blamed for Bee Die-Offs There is limited evidence that new insecticides are the cause of the bee "die-offs" around the United States and Europe... |
