Daily Policy Digest
| Zoning Kills Affordable Housing Local residents employ zoning laws that mandate minimum lot sizes and keep entire towns out of reach for all but the wealthy... |
| Student Loan Forgiveness Not the Answer Student loan forgiveness would essentially amount to a transfer from taxpayers to students, many of whom opted for expensive colleges and useless degrees as federal loans were easily available... |
| Manufacturing Sector: Key to Economic Recovery Since 2011, the manufacturing jobless rate has stayed below the national rate -- in April, the jobless rate was 6.4 percent, a full 1 percent lower than the national average... |
| Fisker Loan Failure Highlights Uncle Sam's Poor Investment History In 2009, green automaker Fisker was awarded a $529 million federal loan; now, the company is teetering on the brink of complete failure and the taxpayer is on the hook... |
| Unproven U.S. Oil Reserves Far Greater than Originally Thought The United States Geological Survey estimates that the Bakken and Three Forks shale formations hold more than 7.4 billion barrels of oil and gas that is undiscovered, but could theoretically be extracted in the future... |
| Pell Grants Fund Remedial Education with Poor Results A large portion of the Federal Pell Grant Program's expenditures are flowing to people who simply aren't prepared to do college-level work... |
| Part-Time Workers to Lose Pay under Affordable Care Act Nationwide, an estimated 2.3 million workers could see their hours reduced due to the Affordable Care Act's health insurance mandate... |
| European Carbon Market in Trouble The European Union's carbon market, a "cap-and-trade" type system, could soon be the victim of its own success... |
| Government Assault on Chinatown Bus Industry Fueled by Bogus Federal Study New research indicates that conventional buses could have a higher fatality rate than curbside buses... |
| Why Were Young People Hit Harder by the Recession? The big drop in home prices between 2007 and 2010 meant a 59 percent loss in home equity for people under age 35, compared with just 26 percent for people generally... |
