Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| Phased-in Teen Driving Privileges Could Save 2,000 Lives per Year The United States could save 2,000 lives a year if all 50 states instituted comprehensive programs of phased-in driving privileges for teens... |
| Poorer Schools Not Getting Fair Share of Funding More than 40 percent of low-income schools don't get their "fair share" of funding, despite federal requirements that districts spend "comparable" amounts of money at poorer schools... |
| Bikes and Red Lights A recent study monitored intersections around campus to see how well drivers and cyclists adhered to red lights -- only about 7 percent of cars ran red lights compared to 58 percent of bicycles... |
| Regulation: What's the Problem? A Mercatus Center study rating 87 regulations in 2008 and 2009 for their timely identification of a systematic problem gave the maximum score of five to only one regulation... |
| Is Suburbia Doomed? Not So Fast. During the 2000s, the Census shows, just 8.6 percent of the population growth in metropolitan areas with more than 1 million people took place in the core cities; the rest took place in the suburbs... |
| Increasing the Supply of Affordable Child Care Families with less than $1,500 in monthly family income spend on average 30 percent of their income on child care... |
| States Should Consider Modest Increases in Speed Limits Studies have shown that increasing speed limits will actually increase safety and decrease the likelihood of accidents... |
| Regulatory Analysis and Regulatory Reform Federal agencies fail to follow protocols regardless of the party in the White House, suggesting that true institutional reform is necessary to rein in regulatory agencies... |
| Ex-Solyndra Staff Eligible for Federal Aid The Labor Department has approved Trade Adjustment Assistance packages valued at about $13,000 a head for the former employees of the bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra... |
| Why Conflict with Public Unions Will Continue While less than 10 percent of full-time public employees were unionized in 1960, this figure has grown to 36 percent today, dwarfing this same share in the private sector... |
