Daily Policy Digest
| China: A Capitalist Nation? While China's political structure may be communist, its economy is based firmly on capitalist principles... |
| Study Shows Tax Breaks Are Inefficient The property, sales and use, corporate and fuel tax breaks in California totaled an estimated $2.51 billion dollars in lost general fund revenue... |
| Labor Unions Regret Backing Affordable Care Act as Costs Rise Sheet Metal Workers Local 85 in Atlanta estimates the Affordable Care Act's requirements will add between 50 cents and $1 an hour to the cost of members' compensation packages... |
| Nation's Best School Districts Trail Global Competition Only 9 percent of U.S. school districts have their average student place in the top 33rd percentile on international standardized tests... |
| Education Ahead: Learning from Successes and Failures President Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan would be wise to take a more calculated approach to education reform that acknowledges the limits of federal involvement in education... |
| Right-to-Work States Have Higher Incomes Right-to-work states have 4.1 percent higher per-capita personal incomes than non-right-to-work states... |
| Schools Have Freedom to Make Reforms Many school administrators have operated under the mentality that they are hemmed in by rules for so long that when they are given greater freedom they act as if their flexibility is still restricted... |
| The Fiscal Crisis: Lessons from Japan If Congress studies what led Japan to its stagnant economy, the United States can avoid policy blunders that will exacerbate its economic woes... |
| Cell Phone Customers Taxed Heavily U.S. wireless consumers pay an average of 17.18 percent in taxes and fees on their cell phone bills, including 11.36 percent in state and local charges... |
| Increased Government Spending Has Negligible Effects on Poverty There are 46 million Americans living in poverty, a number that has grown by nearly 9 million since the beginning of the recession... |
