Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| Regulatory Alternatives: Best and Worst Practices Government agencies should not only identify alternatives when creating regulations but also consider each one thoughtfully... |
| Little Progress Notched in Federal Streamlining A new report from the Government Accountability Office identified 51 new areas where the government could realize more efficiency... |
| Making Cold Medicine Prescription-Only Did Not Reduce Meth Use The number of meth lab incidents in Oregon declined from 467 in 2004 to 12 in 2010; however, most of this decline occurred before a prescription-only law for pseudoephedrine became effective in 2006... |
| Fixing America's Freeways The average urban commuter wastes 34 hours a year in rush-hour congestion today, compared with just 14 hours in 1982... |
| One in Eight Voter Registrations Inaccurate Nearly 2 million deceased individuals are listed as active voters and approximately 2.75 million people have active registrations in more than one state... |
| How Lower Income Citizens Commute More than 76 percent of low-income workers use cars to get to work, according to the five-year American Community Survey for 2006 to 2010... |
| Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? While female mayors do not implement different policies, they do appear to have higher unobserved political skills, as they have a 6 to 7 percentage point higher incumbent effect than a comparable male... |
| Fixing Mortgage Finance: What to Do with the Federal Housing Administration? The Federal Housing Administration currently backs an activity portfolio of over $1 trillion; with an economic value of only $2.6 billion, relatively small changes in the performance of its portfolio could result in significant losses to the taxpayer... |
| Dependence on Government at All-Time High Government dependency jumped 8.1 percent in the past year, with the most assistance going toward housing, health and welfare, and retirement... |
| When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens A study of gun-related self-defense in the 1990s found that there were somewhere between 830,000 and 2.45 million defensive gun uses per year in the United States... |
