Daily Policy Digest
| The World's Most Expensive Cities Currency effects in Zurich drove expenses down 39 percent relative to New York, dropping the Swiss city from the world's most expensive a year ago to seventh place this year... |
| Many 2011 Federal Budget Cuts Had Little Real World Effect An examination of 12 of the largest cuts under Congress' April 2011 budget deal shows that federal agencies absorbed $23 billion in reductions without losing a single employee... |
| Questions Raised by the Congressional Budget Office Report Although the Congressional Budget Office's economic approach is typical among forecasters and historically unbiased, the economy's persistent failure to launch as predicted raises questions... |
| New School Model Receives High Marks Instead of focusing on the amount of seat time a student amasses, credit should be awarded for mastering subject matter... |
| Behavioral Differences Explain the Gender Learning Gap Regardless of racial group or subject area, boys make lower grades than their test scores predict because of their classroom behavior... |
| Assets Available to Prevent Federal Default It is irresponsible to signal to the international community that the United States would default on its debt obligations while it struggles through another debt ceiling debate... |
| Defensive Medicine May Be Costlier Than It Seems Several economic studies have found that states that have enacted malpractice reforms experienced a mere 2 percent to 5 percent reduction in health care spending compared to states that have not... |
| School Choice Pays Off -- Literally The District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program produced $2.62 in benefits for every dollar it spent... |
| Misleading World Health Rankings Thanks to such technologies as emergency incubators, the U.S. neonatal mortality rate has dropped to just 5 percent today from 95 percent in the 1960s... |
| America's Education Still at Risk Fostering competition in the market for schooling incentivizes underperforming institutions to shape up... |
