Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| Regulation in the Pulp and Paper Industry: Costs and Consequences Between 1994 and 2010 the number of workplace injuries in the paper and pulp industry declined at a faster rate than the national rate for all private industries... |
| The Cost of Ever-Increasing Federal Regulations Estimated regulatory costs, while "off budget," are estimated to be $1.75 trillion and are equivalent to over 48 percent of the level of federal spending itself... |
| When Cupcakes Are the Enemy of School Kids Massachusetts will not only limit the bake sale capability of students -- it will also forbid students from handing out sweets such as cupcakes on their birthdays... |
| Restoring Trust in Mortgage-Backed Securities There remains profound lack of confidence in the models used by credit rating agencies to assess residential mortgage-backed securities... |
| Growing Gap in Favorable Views of Federal, State Governments Just a third of Americans have a favorable opinion of the federal government, the lowest positive rating in 15 years... |
| Gaining Public Support for Freeway Congestion Pricing If revenues from tolls were allocated exclusively to road construction/maintenance, consumers would likely be more amenable to them... |
| Why Congress Must Confront the Administrative State The Small Business Administration last year estimated that the total cost of America's regulatory burden reached $1.75 trillion... |
| War and Presidential Greatness A new study points to the number of wartime military casualties per capita as the single most significant indicator of popularly perceived presidential greatness... |
| Social Security by Choice A middle-income worker making $51,200 would get about $1,540 monthly from Social Security, but $3,600 from the Alternate Plan in place in three Texas counties... |
| Does Product Liability Make Us Safer? As of 2008 there had been 100 punitive awards allowed by the tort system, defined as financial amounts that reached or exceeded the $100 million threshold... |
