Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| Minnesota Town Replaces Cops with Private Security Force Foley, Minnesota's town council expects $53,000 in annual savings by replacing cops with a private security force... |
| For Public Safety, a New Golden Age Last month the FBI reported that in the first half of 2011, "violent crimes were down 6.4 percent, while property crimes fell 3.7 percent"... |
| Tax Cuts, Less-Intrusive Government Help Canada Soar Total taxes for businesses in Canada dropped on January 1 to 25 percent, one of the lowest in the G7 and below the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development average... |
| Third-Party Litigation Funding Third-party litigation funding offers a world where, in addition to investing in shares of corporations or trading oil futures, markets exist that allow for the exchange of litigation shares... |
| Growing Wealth Widens Distance between Lawmakers and Constituents Between 1984 and 2009, the median net worth of a member of the House more than doubled from $280,000 to $725,000 in inflation-adjusted 2009 dollars... |
| Risks and Rewards of Public-Private Partnerships for Highways Public-private partnerships for infrastructure are extremely adaptable to a given situation, making them useful for state governments that have a multitude of differing construction needs... |
| Nearly One in Three Will Be Arrested by Age 23 Nearly one in three people will be arrested by the time they are 23, a study published in Pediatrics found... |
| Government Workers Perform Union Duties on the Taxpayers' Dime In fiscal year 2009, federal employees logged 2,991,378 hours doing union work on government time; the cost to taxpayers: $129,100,798... |
| Do More Regulations Equal Less Safety? Psychology, economics and organizational science suggest that too many regulations may make society less safe... |
| Cato Papers on Public Policy A new publication from the Cato Institute provides in-depth new research on key economic and public policy matters combined with a range of potential improvements and solutions... |
