Daily Policy Digest
Economic Issues
| Experimental Unemployment Insurance Program Will Allow Work and Benefits Under the "Bridge to Work" plan, workers who have lost jobs can be placed in other temporary jobs as trainees for short periods to retain their skills or gain new ones while receiving jobless assistance... |
| Six Decades of Treasury Yields The path of yields on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes from 1950 to 2012 shows a remarkable degree of symmetry over the 62-year period... |
| Europe's Only Choice While many claim that higher taxes would help to close budget gaps in Europe, they would also have the simultaneous effect of stifling consumer demand and undermining tax compliance... |
| Is China Slowing Down? In February, housing prices in China declined in 45 of 70 cities surveyed by the National Bureau of Statistics... |
| How Conservatives Can Erase the Gender Gap When all taxes and all costs are considered, a second-earner wife in a middle-income family can expect to keep only about 35 cents out of each dollar she earns, says John C. Goodman, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Fair-Value Accounting and the Export-Import Bank Fair-value accounting undermines the argument by advocates of the Export-Import Bank that it has a net positive return for taxpayers... |
| Obama's Stimulus Delayed Recovery From January 2009 to December 2011, the unemployment rates in the countries with financial crises actually increased less than in those that avoided such a crisis... |
| Ranks of Working Poor Grow in Europe, Despite Social Safety Nets France, which is second only to Germany in its aggregate level of prosperity, has seen a fundamental failure of its own generous social safety nets to protect the poor... |
| Forget About Income Inequality America remains a highly income-mobile society and Americans might be able to scale the income-mobility ladder faster and higher if there were even more opportunities for education and entrepreneurship... |
| Are American Workers Getting Lazy? In the 16- to 24-year-old male demographic, the workforce participation rate has fallen from nearly 80 percent in the late 1970s to around 58 percent now... |
