Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| California High-Speed Rail Cost Goes Up The cost of California's high-speed rail project has risen to $43 billion... |
| Competition in Electricity Markets Proves Success in Texas The average Texan can choose from about 138 different electricity plans offered by 29 different providers; this is up from five providers offering eight plans in 2002... |
| Urban Renewal Policies Are Not the Answer The defining characteristic of declining cities is that they have plenty of infrastructure relative to the level of demand... |
| U.S. Property Rights Protections Continue to Decline Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Botswana and Tunisia rank ahead of the United States in terms of real (physical) property rights... |
| The Politics of Executive Pay Ideology, not "social justice," fuels calls for restraints on executive compensation... |
| Is Food Safety Based on Science? You might think that scientific evidence would constitute the "last word" when food safety rules are made, but in fact it's only the beginning... |
| San Francisco Implements Nation's Toughest Local Hiring Ordinance San Francisco's new local hiring ordinance requires that a set percentage of work hours be performed by economically disadvantaged workers... |
| A Free Market in the Media Industry Rules promulgated by Congress and the Federal Communications Commission yield no productive value for the economy, but merely transfer profits from one industry group to another... |
| North Dakota Is Doing It Right North Dakota's unemployment rate is 3.8 percent and its population has grown nearly 5 percent since 2000... |
| The Role of Culture in State Failure Culture is more important than formal institutions in explaining differences in the degree to which states fail... |
