Daily Policy Digest
| Can Money Buy Happiness After All? A 20 percent increase in income has the same effect on happiness for all people, meaning that it takes larger incremental increases at higher wages to improve the same amount of happiness as a lower-salaried person... |
| Many Companies May Drop Employee Coverage under ObamaCare A 2011 McKinsey survey found that 30 percent of employers would "definitely or probably" drop health insurance after 2014... |
| Rolling Back the War on Vaccines Only 60 percent of U.S. parents of children age 24 months to 35 months adhered to the recommended vaccination schedule in 2009... |
| Solving America's Math Crisis From 1983 to 2007, the percent of college graduates with math-intensive majors fell from roughly 25 percent to around 15 percent... |
| College Need Not Be Expensive Inflation-adjusted household income has fallen by 7 percent between 2006 and 2011, while the average real tuition at public four-year colleges has risen over 18 percent... |
| Ten Year Congressional Budget Outlook Predicts Slow Growth Provided current laws remain the same, the budget deficit is projected to shrink for a fourth year in a row in 2014 to an estimated $845 billion, which represents 5.3 percent of gross domestic product... |
| Labor Force Mismatch Leads to College Grad Underemployment Roughly 48 percent of employed college graduates are in jobs that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says require less than a four-year college education... |
| Interest Group Wants to End Natural Gas Exports Natural gas prices have fallen about 50 percent in the last few years as a result of increased production due to hydraulic fracturing... |
| How to Raise the Quality of Teachers Principals should focus on retaining top-quartile teachers, replacing bottom-quartile teachers and hiring new teachers with potential... |
| The Unchecked Consumer Financial Protection Bureau The statute that empowers the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is incredibly vague, leaving the staff of 1,000 with a $600 million budget to interpret its meaning without any defined or fixed standards... |
