Daily Policy Digest
| The State of Health Care Spending The variation in Medicaid spending over a 40-year period, as a percent of state gross domestic product, was from two to three times greater than the variation in private sector spending, according to a new study from the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Energy Efficiency, Not Efficiency Mandates Producers have a much better ability to meet consumers' demands than any government mandate or subsidy program... |
| Green Jobs Haven't Lived up to Obama's Promise America can boast only 500 green jobs in solar electric power generation, but 886,000 green jobs in government... |
| A Better Strategy for Faster Growth Appropriations legislation should focus on the coming fiscal year and the next, not on 10-year multitrillion-dollar totals that the current Congress can't control and the public can't understand... |
| 50 States, 50 Different Tax Regimes As a percentage of state income, New York has the highest tax burden at 12.8 percent, followed by New Jersey at 12.4 percent and Connecticut at 12.3 percent... |
| LOST at Sea: Why America Should Reject the Law of the Sea Treaty There are strong economic and environmental reasons for why the U.S. Senate should continue to reject ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, says Iain Murray, an adjunct fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Private Exchanges Grow in Popularity In 2013, 39 percent of Sears and Darden employees chose higher deductible consumer directed health plans, up from 21 percent in 2012... |
| Student-Based Budgeting Gives Principals More Autonomy Under the new budgeting guidelines, Chicago Public School principals will gain autonomy over 50 percent of school budgets and must submit and receive approval for each school year's budget... |
| Superintendents Paid as Much as Corporate CEOs In Chicago, the public school superintendent makes $250,000 per year while the public school system faces a $665 million budget deficit... |
| Texas Health Insurance Reforms Allowing Texas' state employees to set up consumer driven health plans would save the state substantial sums of money, as costs and insurance outlays are expected to increase... |
