Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| 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... |
| 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... |
