Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| Cayman Is Rich, Belize Is Poor. Why? Cayman and Belize are small Caribbean countries with the same climate and roughly the same mixed racial heritage, but Cayman has about six times the real per capita income of Belize... |
| The Case for an Executive Reorganization The executive branch, consisting of 157 separate bodies, is far too decentralized and multilayered to be efficient... |
| Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes and Political Stability In well-established democracies, sudden resource windfalls have no effect on changes in the political climate... |
| 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... |
