Daily Policy Digest
| Canadian Advice the United States Should Follow Canada's score on "economic freedom" in the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World report is now higher than the score for the United States... |
| Russia's Dependence on Energy Consumption As oil plunged from $147 per barrel to $34 per barrel after the 2009 financial crisis, Russia's economy contracted by almost 8 percent -- the largest drop among the G20 top industrial nations... |
| Privatization of Government Programs Benefits the Economy Privatization is a bipartisan trend, embraced by pragmatic local policymakers from both sides of the aisle... |
| College Graduates Face Uncertainty with Social Security On average, individuals between the age of 25 and 59 expect to receive only 60 percent of the Social Security benefits that they have been promised... |
| How Germany Became the Savior of the Eurozone Germany's unemployment rate, which approached 10 percent in 2005, now approaches 5 percent, well below even the United States... |
| Eurozone Debt Crisis: The United States Is Next In 2007, total gross public debt in America was already very close to the average for the Eurozone -- 67 percent versus 72 percent... |
| How to Save Social Security In 2023, the federal government will spend $1 on investments (in education, research, infrastructure, etc.) for every $5 it spends on entitlements... |
| Taxpayers Can't Verify the Success of Alternative-Energy Incentives There are 1,124 state, territorial and local financial incentive programs for renewable energy; however, no one seems to know how much state and local governments spend on these programs... |
| U.S. Hospitals Take Drastic Steps to Improve Sanitation Studies have shown that without encouragement, hospital workers wash their hands as little as 30 percent of the time that they interact with patients... |
| U.S. Government Holding Back Economic Growth Today, oil imports account for about 40 percent of America's $750 billion annual trade deficit, a deficit that drains the gross domestic product and kills jobs... |
