Daily Policy Digest
| Teachers Unions Challenge Virtual Education Though the virtual education industry is attracting significant investment and more schools are offering hybrid or online classes, teachers unions may ultimately slow the growth of technology in education... |
| No Relationship between Patient Satisfaction and Surgical Quality The results of a new study show that there is little relationship between a hospital's patient satisfaction scores and quality ratings... |
| The Irrational Fear of Fracking Electricity production from natural gas is up 37 percent since 2007, while coal's share has plummeted 25 percent in the United States but risen in the rest of the world... |
| Climate Scientists Struggle to Explain Warming Slowdown The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had to correct a 2007 report that exaggerated the pace of melt of the Himalayan glaciers and wrongly said they could all vanish by 2035... |
| Seven Reasons the Economy Could Be Headed Into Recession Since the end of the recession in June 2009 the economy grew 2.4 percent in 2010, 1.8 percent in 2011 and 2.2 percent in 2012, with the fourth quarter sinking to a mere 0.4 percent... |
| 2009 Stimulus Was Squandered Nearly half of the new hires that stimulus money generated were employees that were previously employed, meaning that it added far fewer jobs than expected... |
| Washington's Renewable Energy Portfolio to Raise Energy Prices Washington's Renewable Portfolio Standard will raise the cost of electricity by a minimum of $675 million in 2020... |
| Cost Containment Should Be a Priority for Higher Education Student loan debt now totals more than $1 trillion... |
| Younger Workers Hit the Hardest by Recovery During the past decade, workers 55 years old and older have gained 9.3 million jobs, while workers age 25 to 54 lost 3 million jobs and workers age 20 to 24 lost 25,000 jobs... |
| Postal Service Losing $25 Million Daily with "Broken Business Model" Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe told Congress recently that the U.S. Postal Service could become "a significant burden to the taxpayer"... |
