Daily Policy Digest
| Balanced Budget Amendment Could Reduce National Debt The Compact for America Balanced Budget Amendment would restore some balance back to the system of checks and balances by giving states a say in the federal government's borrowing ability, which undeniably affects the states... |
| Campaign Finance Regulations Fail to Curb Public Corruption Despite the widely held view that money plays a dominant role in American elections, there is little relationship between campaign spending and electoral success... |
| Demographic Decline Has Serious Implications In the developed world, and even in the developing world, fertility is below the 2.1 total fertility rate needed for populations to remain stable, meaning that populations are declining... |
| Environmental Regulations Stop Shovel-Ready Jobs The National Environmental Policy Act costs the U.S. economy $577 billion in direct investment and 1.9 million jobs through its regulation of privately funded energy projects... |
| Myths vs. Facts: California's Claims about Texas' Economy Between 2006 and 2012, California had a net loss of 359,000 jobs while Texas had a net gain of more than 1 million jobs... |
| Study Finds Expanding Medicaid Didn't Lead To Big Health Gains Medicaid boosted enrollees' use of medication but didn't seem to improve their health, says Devon Herrick, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Four in 10 Americans Unaware ObamaCare Is Law of the Land An astonishing four in 10 people polled in a recent survey were unaware that ObamaCare is law... |
| Reforms Could Boost Effectiveness of Occupational Safety and Health Administration The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's inspection efforts have reduced worker injuries by a modest 4 percent... |
| The Federal Financial Triangle The Federal Reserve, by buying long-term mortgage-backed securities and long-term Treasury debt, is creating interest rate risk on its own balance sheet... |
| Why the Next Farm Bill Should Be the Last Farms account for a small percentage of rural employment and subsidies tend to go to large corporations, which now dominate the agriculture industry... |
