Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| Millions Defraud Federal Phone Subsidy Program Forty-one percent of Lifeline subscribers, a service that provides phones to low-income Americans via subsidies from phone service customers, could not demonstrate eligibility or did not respond to requests to determine eligibility... |
| January 2013 Poll Results Reflect Americans' True Feelings Forty percent of American surveyed say their quality of life has been reduced due to government spending... |
| Privatizing Roads Will Improve America's Roads New road enterprises in America should be granted the ability to charge user fees in place of relying on general funds... |
| Dispelling a Common Gun-Control Myth Increasing background checks will constitute nothing more than an inconvenience for most gun purchasers and the delays may even trigger slight rises in violent crime... |
| Freedom of Association Many union members are forced to associate with that union and accept exclusive union representation based simple on a majority of workers voting to unionize... |
| End the Secrecy in Public Union Collective Bargaining The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that state and local government employees earn 43 percent more than their private sector counterparts... |
| Improving Economic Mobility through Increased Savings Savings -- and, even more important, the culture of saving -- are critical to long-term and consistent movement up the economic ladder... |
| Can a "Hybrid" Model Save the Post Office? A new study will analyze the benefits of restoring the U.S. Post Office's financial health by using a "hybrid" model, which would farm out to the private sector postal operations other than the last delivery mile... |
| How a Federal Menu-Labeling Law Will Harm American Pizza The delay in implementing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's menu-labeling rule appears to have resulted in an expansion of Congress' original intent... |
| Patent Reform in the United States: Lessons Learned The America Invents Act, intended to modernize U.S. patent law, did little to correct or update the lengthy "first to invent" system or the one-year grace period between disclosure and application... |
