Daily Policy Digest
| How to Improve the Quality of K-12 Teachers If student outcomes are to improve, we must improve the quality of teachers... |
| Head Start Has High Costs and Very Few Benefits By the third grade, effects of the $8 billion-a-year Head Start program all but completely disappear... |
| New Tax Hikes Eyed for Roads, Transit The American Society of Engineers estimates the country needs to spend $2.7 trillion on total infrastructure between now and 2020, but is falling more than $1 trillion short of that... |
| Electric Cars: Still a Work in Progress The electric car market as a whole accounted for merely 0.1 percent of the 15-million-car-per-year American market, up only 0.001 percent from 2011... |
| Tax Increases Are Futile When taxes are raised, many wealthier Americans will renegotiate their wages and salaries with their employers... |
| World Housing Affordability Varies Greatly Hong Kong, Vancouver, Sydney, San Jose, San Francisco and London were the least affordable housing markets of the 337 metropolitan markets analyzed in the 9th Annual Demographia Housing Affordability Survey, says Wendell Cox, an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Overreacting to Environmental Crimes Many statutes in the Gulf Coast states do not require the perpetrator to act with mens rea, or a "guilty mind," meaning that violators could unknowingly wind up on the wrong side of the law... |
| Concierge Medical Services Appeal to Baby Boomers More than 1.5 million Americans have paid the additional fee to have the extra benefits of concierge medicine services... |
| Recent Congressional Research Service Study Provides Inaccurate Information to Congress A recent study by the Congressional Research Service that examines the effect of the top statutory tax rates on economic activity fails to provide accurate research that reflects the best information and scholarship available... |
| Freedom of Association Many union members are forced to associate with that union and accept exclusive union representation based simple on a majority of workers voting to unionize... |
