Daily Policy Digest
| The Fiscal Cliff and the Next Recession If action is taken to avert the fiscal cliff, real gross domestic product would increase by 1.4 percent and full-time employment would increase by 1.8 million jobs by the end of next year, says Peter Ferrara, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Payroll Tax Holiday Since its inception, the payroll tax cut has reduced Social Security payroll revenues by 16 percent, says Lewis Warne, a research associate with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| High-Speed Rail's Fiscal Cliff The California High Speed Rail Authority has spent about $600 million without laying a single railroad tie or buying any property, says Wendell Cox, an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Reducing Waste in Health Care Thirty percent of all Medicare clinical care spending could be avoided without worsening health outcomes... |
| What's Ahead for Education after the 2012 Election Following the 2012 election, there will be three major trends in education reform: reduced federal funding for K-12, a growing divide over education reform within the GOP, and the staying power of teachers unions... |
| The Patient Role in Medicaid New York's Medicaid reform would coordinate and manage health care for people covered on a fee-for-service basis and place more emphasis on health education and prevention... |
| An Economic Guide to Cliff-Diving Because markets can respond instantaneously, the mere perception that the government is going over the fiscal cliff can set off a chain of events... |
| Higher Taxes Mean Slower Economic Growth U.S. growth is currently weak, with an overall output of 13.5 percent lower than what it would be had we continued on the pre-2008 trend... |
| With Election Over, Administration Unleashes New Rules New Environmental Protection Agency rules could cost manufacturers hundreds of billions of dollars -- up to $111 billion by government estimates and $138 billion by industry estimates... |
| Federal Worker Happiness Drops On a scale of 100, overall job satisfaction for federal workers was scored at 60.8 -- a 3.2 drop from the previous year and the largest drop since the survey began in 2003... |
