Daily Policy Digest
| Amendments to Limit Campaign Contributions Misguided Evidence from recent elections shows that campaign spending is not strongly related to electoral wins... |
| Why an Internet Sales Tax Would Be Ineffective Imposing Internet taxation would not correctly assess the value of delivering a public service involved in an Internet transaction... |
| Big Changes Looming for Broadcast Television A startup firm, Aereo, is seeking to disrupt the cable and television industry with a new technology that could change broadcasters' business models... |
| Rather than Government, Private Philanthropy Should Expand Pre-K Privately-supported programs could expand pre-kindergarten to local school systems across the country without government support... |
| The Case for Eliminating Farm Subsidies In 2009, the average net worth of a farmer was nearly $1 million, twice the national average, and average household income for farms was more than $84,000 in 2010... |
| Study: Money Can Buy Happiness Data show that the relationship between wellbeing and income rises linearly as income rises... |
| Physical by Smartphone Becoming a Real Possibility The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has already approved several mobile health devices and estimates that more than 500 million smartphone users worldwide will use some type of health app by 2015... |
| Education Funding Formulas Pay for Non-Existent Students Massachusetts, along with Connecticut, has charter school funding protection, which reimburses districts that send students to charters to reduce the impact of lower enrollment... |
| In Several States, Medicaid Expansion Remains in Limbo as Time Runs Short In the final days and weeks of the legislative calendar, 16 states remain in limbo when it comes to expanding Medicaid... |
| Streamlined ObamaCare Application Leaves Program Open to Insurance Fraud The length of the old application for subsidies under the Affordable Care Act was largely driven by the need to ensure that consumers were actually eligible for the government subsidies... |
