Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| Saving the American Dream Medicare and Social Security face $40 trillion in unfunded obligations - about $200,000 per person... |
| The Regulatory Cliff Is Nearly as Steep as the Fiscal One The Environmental Protection Agency's 2010 Ozone Rule would create a limit on ozone output so strict that 85 percent of U.S. counties would be in violation... |
| Regulation, Market Structure and Role of the Credit Rating Agencies The federal government's role in creating de facto supreme credit rating agencies undermined the agencies' incentives to behave and operate properly... |
| Would the U.S. Postal Service Be Financially Stronger If It Sold Non-Postal Products? Diversified products, such as non-postal services, contributed 63 percent of foreign posts' total revenue in 2008, up from 49 percent in 2003... |
| Myths and Facts on Transportation Public-Private Partnerships Public-private partnerships do not involve the sale of any facilities by governments to private sector interests... |
| Mercatus Center Policy Guide The Mercatus Center at George Mason University has published a new policy guide designed to provide easily accessible economic information... |
| Prison's Guards Are Part Wolf, All Business Due to budgetary constraints, Louisiana State Penitentiary has employed the use of approximately 80 wolf-dogs for the purposes of guarding the compound... |
| Six Reforms to Occupational Licensing Laws to Increase Jobs and Lower Costs Licensing boards should be required to have a supermajority of members drawn from the general public rather than the profession itself... |
| Freeing Europe from the Euro Much of the strife caused by the euro could be resolved if other currencies were permitted to be used within the Eurozone... |
| Multiple Families, One Roof The suburban single-family home is becoming a misnomer as economic reality collides with shifting demographics... |
