Daily Policy Digest
| 2009 Stimulus Was Squandered Nearly half of the new hires that stimulus money generated were employees that were previously employed, meaning that it added far fewer jobs than expected... |
| Washington's Renewable Energy Portfolio to Raise Energy Prices Washington's Renewable Portfolio Standard will raise the cost of electricity by a minimum of $675 million in 2020... |
| Cost Containment Should Be a Priority for Higher Education Student loan debt now totals more than $1 trillion... |
| Younger Workers Hit the Hardest by Recovery During the past decade, workers 55 years old and older have gained 9.3 million jobs, while workers age 25 to 54 lost 3 million jobs and workers age 20 to 24 lost 25,000 jobs... |
| Postal Service Losing $25 Million Daily with "Broken Business Model" Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe told Congress recently that the U.S. Postal Service could become "a significant burden to the taxpayer"... |
| Hospitals Profit When Surgeries Go Awry Hospitals earned 330 percent higher profit margins on surgeries with one or more complications when they were paid for by private insurers... |
| Inflation Poised to Accelerate According to the American Institute for Economic Research's Everyday Price Index, the prices of frequently purchased goods and services jumped 2.3 percent in February... |
| ObamaCare Rule Creates Health Care Disparities among States The policy for determining federal subsidies for the essential health benefits package penalizes states that previously tried to keep health costs more affordable while rewarding states that previously had more generous plans... |
| State Solutions Can Improve Medicaid While many states have opted not to expand Medicaid, states also have the choice of implementing innovative, market-driven solutions to improving Medicaid... |
| The Perils of Automatic Budgeting Congress needs to adopt long-term, sensible and durable budget solutions that will lead to low inflation and a departure from complacent politics... |
