Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| 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... |
| Where Females Are Rising the Fastest Twenty-four percent of Vietnam's 100,000-plus incorporated enterprises are owned by women... |
| Reforms for the Failing Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service expects to lose between $9 billion and $10 billion for its 2011 fiscal year, on top of losses of $8.4 billion in 2010... |
| Debate Brews over New Method to Measure Poverty A new method of calculating the number of America's poor estimates 16 percent of Americans lived in poverty in 2010, slightly higher than the official rate of 15.2 percent released in September... |
| Five Myths about the World's Population Most serious demographers, economists and population specialists rarely use the term "overpopulation" because there is no clear demographic definition... |
| The Swedish Model Reassessed The period in which welfare economics were most strongly implemented in Sweden (the 1970s and 1980s) saw low rates of growth... |
| The Importance of Failure When we recognize business failure as an opportunity to learn, its value becomes paramount as it disseminates information to other actors in the sector about good and bad business practices... |
| The Democratic Transition Proliferation of elementary education is a strong indicator of imminent democratic gains... |
| Capitol Gains Between 1993 and 1998, Senate portfolios outperformed the market by approximately 12 percent a year, while House members averaged a still-impressive 6 percent over the market... |
| Taming the Fourth Branch of Government The Federal Register has increased in size from some 11,000 pages in the 1950s to about 80,000 currently -- 3,500 new policies have been adopted in the last three years alone... |
