Daily Policy Digest
| Leaving Canada for Medical Care, 2012 In 2012, a significant number of Canadians -- an estimated 42,173 -- received treatment outside of the country... |
| Tax and Expenditure Limits Are Ineffective In an attempt to rein in their finances, 30 states have enacted limitations on taxes, budgets or outlays since 1978, however these caps are not effective... |
| Big Data to Drive More Oil Productivity Increases In the past five years, technology has improved the productivity of America's shale fields by 200 percent to 300 percent... |
| More Transparency Is Needed in Education The median student borrower now owes nearly $14,000, while the returns on college degrees have actually decreased over the last decade... |
| How to Tell if College Presidents Are Overpaid The median salary of public university presidents rose 4.7 percent in 2011-2012 to more than $440,000 a year, vastly outpacing the rate of inflation, as well as the earnings of the typical worker in the U.S. economy... |
| The Cruel Things Obama Is Doing to the Labor Market There was a huge shift to part-time employment in the fast-food industry beginning in January, says John C. Goodman, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Parent Trigger Laws Empower Parents for School Change Given the track record of public education, parent triggers empower parents to take a more active role in their child's education... |
| Parent Trigger: There's a Better Way The parent trigger is useful because it gets parents involved in their child's education, but it is doubtful that it will lead to long-term systematic changes... |
| Wind Farms Get Pass on Eagle Deaths More than 573,000 birds are killed by the country's wind farms each year, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles... |
| Hispanic College Enrollment Rates Pass White College Enrollment Rates Sixty-nine percent of Hispanic students who completed high school in 2012 enrolled in college the following October, compared with 67 percent of whites and 63 percent of blacks... |
