Daily Policy Digest
Economic Issues
| Ditch the Dollar Bill and Live with Change The Government Accountability Office estimates that savings from switching from paper to coins would amount to $184 million a year... |
| Harrisburg Is Having a Yard Sale Harrisburg, Penn., faces $310 million dollars in debt, brought on by ballooning pension costs and other economic woes... |
| Overpopulation Isn't the Problem By 2030, many countries will have only two workers for every retiree; economic superpowers such as the United States and China will fair only slightly better with three workers per retiree... |
| Right to Work Is Working in Oklahoma Between 2003 and 2010, Oklahoma's manufacturing gross domestic product has grown 45 percent, outstripping that of the average manufacturing growth in non-right to work states (22 percent)... |
| In the Wake of the Bubble Strategies and public pronouncements seeking to solve the fallout from the financial crisis ignore Pollock's Law of Finance: loans that cannot be paid will not be paid... |
| Full-Time Employment: A Thing of the Past? The hiring binge of temporary and contract employees is likely to persist, as employers continue to face uncertainty about the economy and the regulatory environment, according to a recent report from the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Taxi Medallions Sell for $1 Million Two New York taxi medallions -- aluminum plates that grant the right to operate a yellow cab -- changed hands last week for $1 million apiece... |
| International Housing Affordability In Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, a median priced house, including additional mortgage interest, now costs a household at least $750,000 more than an affordable home in the past, says Wendell Cox, an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Dodd-Frank Creates Obstacles, Restricts Growth Before the banking crisis, the top 10 banks in the United States held 55 percent of total assets in the banking sector; today, they hold 77 percent, says Karlyn Gorski, a research assistant with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| How California Drives Away Jobs and Business Between 1994 and 2008, California ranked 47th in net jobs created through business relocation, losing 124,000 more jobs to outmigration than it gained from other places... |
