Daily Policy Digest
| Can Big Government Be Rolled Back? American history over the last hundred years has been a story of the growth of the size and powers of government... |
| Who Benefits from the Mortgage Interest Deduction? Nearly 55 percent of those claiming the mortgage interest deduction are households making $100,000 or more a year; these households receive 78 percent of the deduction's total benefits... |
| Education in the Media, 2012: Hits and Misses The most important but neglected education stories in the media in 2012 included common core academic content for standards for English and mathematics, online or digital learning, and Louisiana's educational transformation... |
| For Federal Workers, the Grass Isn't Greener in the Private Sector According to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation, public workers make comparable salaries to private sector workers... |
| California Leads U.S. Pay Giveaway One California state psychiatrist received wages and benefits of $822,000, whereas the top earner for the same position in a state like New Jersey is $327,000... |
| The Wind Production Tax Credit: Corporate Welfare at Its Worst The Production Tax Credit designed to promote wind power distorts price signals in the wholesale electricity market by giving wind producers an incentive to sell electricity at a loss to earn enormous tax subsidies... |
| Hospital Systems Branch Out as Insurers A 2011 survey of 100 hospital leaders by health research firm Advisory Board Co. found that 20 percent of them intended to market an insurance plan... |
| Gloomy Voters say Country on Wrong Track, Kids Will Be Poorer Only 34 percent of people polled feel they will be better off at the end of President Obama's second term than they are right now... |
| After-Hours Access to Primary Care Practices Linked to Better Care People that reported less difficulty in reaching a physician after hours had fewer emergency department visits and there were lower rates of unmet medical needs... |
| Why Raising Medicare's Retirement Age Will Help Achieve Universal Coverage Freeing up resources that would otherwise have been spent on wealthy retirees' Medicare would mean that lower-income Americans are better able to get coverage... |
