Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| Is There a Case for Agricultural Subsidies? Farmers do not generally face more risk than business owners in other sectors, nor do farms fail more often than other forms of business... |
| Food Deserts Merely improving access to healthy food does not change consumer behavior... |
| What Role Does Partisanship Play in U.S. State Fiscal Policymaking? The size of state and local consumption as a proportion of total government spending increased from 43 percent to 67 percent between 1960 and 2010... |
| Public-Private Partnerships Help Keep Parks Open Government shutdowns are an extreme reminder of the perils of publicly financed conservation and outdoor recreation... |
| The Role of Public Transportation in the Lives of Elderly and Disabled Riders Despite receiving the largest subsidies per passenger mile of any mode of transportation, less than 1 percent of all passenger miles traveled by Americans is by public transit... |
| Delay Rule Bumps up Flight Cancellations While it's true that long ground delays have disappeared, canceled flights have gone up significantly... |
| Federal Government Should Leave Transportation Infrastructure to the States The federal government should fund no transportation infrastructure at all... |
| Restoring the Balance of Power between States and the Federal Government Local policymakers and citizens need to restore the balance of power between the states and the federal government... |
| Is American's Love Affair with Kids Waning? The share of the population under age 18 has dropped in 95 percent of U.S. counties since 2000... |
| Phone-Book Delivery Disappearing Phone books, long a staple of U.S. life, are fading quickly as lawmakers and phone companies see green benefits in limiting their delivery... |
