Daily Policy Digest
Economic Issues
| Regulations Are Costly to American Consumers and Businesses By voluntarily imposing higher costs on an industry, larger participants in a sector can drive smaller actors out of the market and increase their own market share... |
| Small Business Owners Fear Economic Situation A new poll says that 85 percent of the small businesses surveyed indicated that they are currently not looking for new workers; 48 percent of respondents who are not hiring said it was due to concerns about possible rising health care costs... |
| How Big Sugar Robs You A system of import quotas and domestic supply controls effectively doubles the price U.S. consumers pay for sugar and increases annual food costs by about $9 per person... |
| Taxi Regulation and the Failures of Progressivism Progressive policies of the late 19th century have led to a public sector that is dominated by political interests and rife with inefficiencies... |
| Is Canada Headed for a Housing Bubble? Canada's ratio of household debt to disposable income has risen by 40 percent in the past decade, recently surpassing America's... |
| Why the EU Should Break Up The EU in its current form is almost certainly unsalvageable and the governments of France and Germany should give thought to their plans beyond the EU's recovery... |
| The Bad News Behind the January Jobs Report At the end of last year, the Congressional Budget Office cautioned that the official unemployment rate was about 1.25 percentage points lower than the real rate; in January, that gap was about 1.6 percentage points... |
| Family Proximity, Childcare and Women's Labor Force Attachment The predicted probability of employment and labor force participation is 4 to 10 percentage points higher for married women with young children living in close proximity to their mothers or their mothers-in-law compared with those living further away... |
| The Human Capital Imperative: Bringing More Minds to America Immigrants accounted for well over 50 percent of the growth in employment in STEM-related fields between 2003 and 2008... |
| America's Flawed, Outdated Trade Policy A policy favoring domestic companies over foreign will slowly degrade the benefits that many foreign companies bring to American workers when they shift their operations to our shores... |
