Daily Policy Digest
| Texas Voucher Program Increased Local Development Edgewood Independent School District started a voucher program in 1998 and saw an increase in enrollment in 2002 of 3.5 percent, its first increase in enrollment in many years, says John Merrifield, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| How to Help the Poor without Slowing the Recovery Finding ways to reduce the costs of regulation will be the most effective way to increase the real incomes of the poor... |
| Debunking Common Public Finance Myths Strong empirical evidence suggests that increased government spending does not stimulate the economy and increased printing press liquidity will slow a recovery... |
| Low Interest Rates Could Cause Havoc Interest rates cannot be kept low forever, and when the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, housing prices are going to drop everywhere... |
| ObamaCare Insurance Plans Will Be Bare Bones Because the ObamaCare plans are likely to pay providers less than private coverage rates, doctors may refuse to accept these plans just as they refuse to accept Medicaid today... |
| Unnecessary Regulations that Increase Prescription Drug Costs Sixty percent of all Americans take a prescription drug in any given year, and nearly all seniors do, says Devon Herrick, a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Economic Effects of the Sequester A 1 percent spending cut has no significant effect on growth, whereas a 1 percent tax increase reduces gross domestic product by 1.3 percent after two years... |
| Whether States Should Expand Medicaid Is a Tough Decision Medicaid already accounted for nearly 24 percent of state budget expenditures in 2011 and costs are projected to rise by more than 150 percent over the next decade... |
| America's Early Industrialists Earned Their Wealth America's early industrialists, like shipping and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, got their money the old-fashioned way: they earned it... |
| Larger Spending Cuts Would Help the Economy The $825 billion stimulus of 2009 cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per job but yielded no short-term economic growth... |
