Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| Postal Service Could Save Billions with Slower Service The U.S. Postal Service could save about $1.5 billion a year if it relaxed its two-to-three-day delivery schedules for first-class and Priority Mail deliveries by a day... |
| Boomers Pick Small Towns over Big Cities Over the past decade over 1 million aging baby boomers and seniors moved to smaller cities and rural locations from suburban or urban locations... |
| Terminating the Small Business Administration The Small Business Administration will cost taxpayers about $6.2 billion in 2011... |
| Using Price Theory to Reform Overregulated America In 1787, there were four federal crimes; now there are over 4,000 and the Code of Federal Regulations runs over 157,000 pages... |
| Enterprise Programs: Freeing Entrepreneurs to Provide Essential Services to the Poor A new report from a task force of experts assembled by the National Center for Policy Analysis examines five essential services -- transportation, child care, security, housing and health care -- that would benefit from targeted regulatory relief... |
| America's Young and Restless Abandon Cities for Suburbs Evidence from the last Census shows a marked acceleration of movement not into cities but toward suburban and exurban locations by young Americans... |
| Evaluating Federal Social Programs Federal social programs are rarely evaluated to determine whether they are actually accomplishing their intended purposes... |
| How U.S. Agricultural Policy Hurts the Developing World U.S. agricultural policies make international agreements on reductions in trade barriers more difficult to finalize, further increasing price volatility and postponing the economic benefits of freer trade... |
| Days Are Numbered for Saturday Mail Delivery The U.S. Postal Service estimates stopping Saturday mail delivery would save $3.1 billion a year... |
| Some Federal Workers More Likely to Die than Lose Jobs The job security rate for all federal workers was 99.43 percent last year and nearly 100 percent for those on the job more than a few years... |
