Daily Policy Digest
| Reasons to Reject the Law of the Sea Treaty The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Treaty is essentially a new world government of the sea that redistributes wealth and seeks to control supply and demand of oceanic resources, say Iain Murray, an adjunct fellow, and H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow, at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Tax Code More Complex Than Ever The current paperwork burden generated by the Internal Revenue Service now totals more than 6.7 billion hours... |
| Math and Science Teachers Earn More Outside of Education Math and science teachers earned 15 percent and 12 percent more, respectively, than did English teachers after leaving the teaching profession... |
| Insurance Tax Could Cost States Billions The ObamaCare tax on insurance plans could cost the states as much as $15 billion... |
| Addressing the Declining Productivity of Higher Education Even when adjusted for the growth in overall labor costs in the economy, the decline in bachelor's-degree production is nearly 20 percent... |
| Are Corporate Bonds Worth a Look? The value of U.S. corporate bonds issued was $1.36 trillion in 2012, says Pamela Villarreal, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Public Policies, Prices and Productivity in American Higher Education The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reports that in the United States more than $25,000 is spent per student in higher education -- the highest among OECD countries and more than twice the OECD average... |
| Budget Proposal Seeks Home Health Care Copay The problem with the assumption that many people are using home health care that could instead seek outpatient care is that home health care prevents a lot of inpatient hospital stays... |
| Student Borrowers Delay Major Purchases as Debt Mounts In 2012, 22 percent of 30 year olds with a history of student debt had or previously had a mortgage, compared to 24 percent of 30 year olds who never had any student debt... |
| Obama's Budget Proposal Seeks to Cap Retirement Savings Limiting an individual's retirement savings account balance to $3 million would only save the federal government an estimated $9 billion over 10 years -- barely enough to cover the current deficit for a few days... |
