Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| A Meter So Expensive, It Creates Parking Spots San Francisco installed parking sensors and new meters at roughly a quarter of its 26,800 metered spots to track when and where cars are parked in an attempt to allow the laws of supply and demand to dictate parking in the city... |
| 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... |
