Daily Policy Digest
Economic Issues
| H-1B Visa Quotas Greatly Restrain Small Business Expansion Every H-1B request is correlated with five new jobs at major firms and more than seven jobs at firms with less than 5,000 employees... |
| What Happened in Stockton? Increased debt payments, combined with multiple years of negative net annual activity, ultimately pushed Stockton, California, over the edge financially... |
| Free Markets Equal Sustainable Development Profits and losses discipline people to learn quickly from and fix their mistakes, and consequently, markets are superb at using trial-and-error to find solutions to problems... |
| Jumpstart the Economy Many of the most esteemed economists in history have asserted that a market economy guided by a non-interventionist and predictable government is a recipe for prosperity... |
| Using Staffing Companies to Reduce Unemployment The primary driver of persistent unemployment is not the unavailability of jobs; rather, it is the inability of workers to be properly matched with current job openings, says William B. Conerly, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Global Weakness: Are We Out of Policy Tools? Despite the maxing out of monetary policy in the United States (interest rates have been driven as low as they can be), unemployment still managed to worsen last month... |
| Who Are the Rich and How Do We Know? The basis for numerous policy stances and delineations, the president's classification between rich and non-rich is grossly misleading and myopic... |
| When Walmart Comes to Town: Always Low Housing Prices? A new Walmart store increases housing prices by between 2 and 3 percent for houses located within 0.5 miles of the store... |
| So You Think You Can Be a Hair Braider? There are more than 1,000 licensed professions in the United States, partly a result of more than a century of legal work... |
| More than 7 in 10 U.S. Teens Jobless This Summer In 1978, the share of 16- to 19-year-olds with summer employment reached a peak of nearly 60 percent; last summer, only 29.6 percent of that same age group was employed... |
