Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| 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... |
| Most Jobs Not Accessible by Transit At least 96 percent of jobs in the largest metropolitan areas would be inaccessible by transit in 30 minutes for the average resident... |
| Transportation: From the Top Down or Bottom Up? Top-down transportation planning quickly turns into a combination of social engineering and pork barrel... |
| Should "Better Safe than Sorry" Guide Our Public Policy? The precautionary principle provides no meaningful guidance to pressing policy questions... |
| Public-Sector Unionism: A Review In 2009, membership in public sector unions surpassed membership in private sector unions for the first time in U.S. history... |
| Common Sense Solutions for America's Transportation Challenges The nation's transportation system can be improved at taxpayer-friendly costs by considering options such as high-occupancy toll lanes and intelligent transportation systems... |
| Lease State Parks California has let state parks deteriorate to the point that they need $1 billion in repair and maintenance... |
