Daily Policy Digest
| America's Massive Debt Has Come Back to Bite Us The current debt ceiling is at about $16.4 trillion -- about $52,000 per person in the United States... |
| Demography as Destiny: The Vital American Family Before the 2008 collapse, the U.S. fertility rate was at 2.12; since then, the fertility rate dropped precipitously to 1.9 per woman... |
| Expansion of Arizona's School Voucher System Takes Effect Arizona's school voucher program has been expanded from only including disabled children to include children that go to schools receiving a D or F letter grade... |
| Switzerland: A Case Study in Consumer-Driven Health Care In 2000, 43 percent of Swiss consumers' payments were for insurance premiums, 0.1 percent for deductibles and copayments, and 28 percent for all other out-of-pocket costs... |
| Opposition to Genetic Modification More than two trillions servings of foods with genetically modified ingredients have been consumed in North America... |
| How the Federal Housing Administration Hurts Working-Class Families and Communities An estimated 40 percent of the Federal Housing Administration's business consists of loans with either one or two subprime attributes -- a FICO score below 660 or a debt ratio equal to or greater than 50 percent... |
| Patent Reform in the United States: Lessons Learned The America Invents Act, intended to modernize U.S. patent law, did little to correct or update the lengthy "first to invent" system or the one-year grace period between disclosure and application... |
| The Economic Impact of Pennsylvania's Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard Pennsylvania's Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard will increase the cost of electricity by $2.55 billion for the state's electricity consumers in 2021... |
| Medicaid Reforms and Emergency Room Visits Evidence from West Virginia's Medicaid reform shows that if individuals are more involved with their health and are in constant contact with their health providers, there is potential to reduce overall costs... |
| Gauging the Guidance that Models Give the Fed The computer-modeling programs the Federal Reserve uses have overestimated the strength of the economy for several years... |
