Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| The Last, Best Hope for Postal Reform The U.S. Postal Service expects to lose over $18 billion annually by 2015 unless changes are made... |
| Fat Chance: An Analysis of Anti-Obesity Efforts When New York City required in 2008 that restaurant chains post calorie counts on menus, consumers made no substantial changes to their eating habits... |
| Public-Private Partnerships in National Infrastructure Improvements in technology have allowed greater participation by businesses to expand road capacity via high occupancy toll lanes... |
| 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... |
