Daily Policy Digest
| Private School Choice: Options for Texas Children Surveys have found that 40 percent to 60 percent of suburban, urban and rural students are not engaged with public school content, say John Merrifield, Lewis Warne, Lloyd Bentsen IV, Courtney O'Sullivan and Joe Barnett of the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Federal Communications Commission: Onerous Regulations and High Cost The Federal Communications Commission is the federal government's third most expensive agency, costing $142 billion a year... |
| Currency Wars and Global Macroeconomic Policy The combination of austerity measures and fiscal pumping results in currency weakness, which exports deflationary pressures... |
| Export Licensing Systems Slow Energy Growth With America set to become a net natural gas exporter by 2020 and virtually self-sufficient in energy by 2035, fossil fuel export restrictions and pending applications are limiting U.S. energy producers... |
| Restricted Growth of Home Health Agencies Hurts Patients In the District of Columbia, the district's State Health Planning and Development Agency has rejected 46 of the 49 home health applications submitted... |
| Income Inequality Not Necessarily Inequitable Favoring redistribution ignores the fact that there is no way to make the poor richer without making the rich poorer... |
| The Truth about Obama's Sequestration Report The White House's report of sequestration's effects is full of doom and gloom, but the predictions involve some large assumptions and generally overstate the impact of sequestration... |
| Study Questions Widely Used Risk-Adjustment Methods The sickness of patients explained between 10 percent and 12 percent of the discrepancy between places with high mortality rates and those with low mortality rates... |
| Stimulus Spending Fails to Improve Economy Because stimulus is the result of the political process and suffers from diminishing returns, it is unlikely to be targeted in the most efficient manner at areas of "slack" in the economy... |
| Young Adults: Fewer Homes, Fewer Cars, Less Debt From 2007 to 2010, adults younger than age 35 lowered their median household debt by 29 percent compared with just an 8 percent decline in households headed by adults age 35 and older... |
