Daily Policy Digest
Economic Issues
| How the Government's Unconstitutional Actions Hurt the 99 Percent Coercive government policies threaten to limit economic freedom, thereby increasing the power of political elites and hurting the poor and working classes... |
| Federal Housing Administration Nears Need for Taxpayer Funds The Federal Housing Administration is projected to need more money to pay off its projected losses than it has in its reserves... |
| Entrepreneurship Is a Key to Poverty Reduction Every 1 percentage point increase in entrepreneurship corresponds to a 2 percent decrease in the poverty rate... |
| U.S. Workers Endure "Lost Decade" of Declining Wages The median working-age man earns 4 percent less than he did in 1970 when adjusted for inflation... |
| Reducing Debt and Other Measures for Improving U.S. Competitiveness As the debt continues to increase, the government is forced to either increase taxes or make difficult spending cuts, or both... |
| Fiscal Health of States Shows Growing Divergence Ten states are expected to finish fiscal 2012 with surpluses of 10 percent or more; but states like California will likely end the fiscal year with a deficit... |
| Federal Reserve's QE3 Policy Costs Seniors People ages 35 to 44 receive less than 3 percent of their income from interest-rate dependent sources; people age 65 and older receive 6 percent from these sources... |
| Reforming the Housing Transaction If title laws change and the recording process modernizes, the cost of purchasing a home would decrease by hundreds of dollars... |
| Why Washington Has It Wrong on Small Business The global economy necessitates a new approach to helping small businesses, which involves helping high-potential startups... |
| America's Most Competitive Metros Since 2010 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California had job growth of 3.5 percent as a result of an increase in economic competitiveness from 2010-2012... |
