Daily Policy Digest
| Regulating Workers' "Human Rights" Harms Employment Mandating such privileges as maternity leave and paid sick leave in the name of eliminating labor market discrimination will only kill jobs and stifle economic growth... |
| Growth Corridors Key to Economic Recovery Covering 20 percent of the country, the Great Plains region has a population of 30 million people and will become more urban and ethnically diverse in the future, proving vital in America's economic recovery... |
| Student-Loan Delinquencies Soar Thirty-five percent of people under age 30 who have student loans were at least 90 days late on their payments at the end of last year, up from 26 percent in 2008 and 21 percent at the end of 2004... |
| Transatlantic Trade Talks Provide Promise and Challenges Reducing restrictions on free trade might be beneficial for the economies of both trade partners, but there is a limit to how much trade agreements can accomplish... |
| Mismanaged Federal Properties Cost Taxpayers Billions Mismanagement of federal property is estimated to cost taxpayers at least $1.6 billion each year... |
| What Do Banks Do? For banks, holding debt is preferable to holding equity, because 98 percent of the time the debt will be paid back with interest... |
| Gas Boom Projected to Grow for Decades U.S. shale-rock formations will provide a growing source of moderately priced natural gas through 2040, and decline only slowly after that... |
| The Jobs Crisis Is About Much More than Unemployment Since 2007, the real median income of American families has dropped by over $5,000 per family, while the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average employed person spends 8.3 hours per day working, up from 7.6 hours per day in 2007... |
| Why We Should Limit the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction Because the current tax system fails to tax imputed rent, it leads to a tax advantage that could be fixed by replacing the home mortgage interest deduction with a 15 percent refundable credit... |
| Raising the Minimum Wage Hurts Its Intended Beneficiaries Raising the minimum wage would crowd out the lowest skilled workers and make it more challenging for our country's youth to begin on the career ladder... |
