National Center for Policy Analysis

Daily Policy Digest

Monday, January 28, 2008

Education Issues

SCHOOL CHOICE COULD HELP SLOW LATINO DROPOUT RATE

With a dropout rate of more than 22 percent, Latino students are leaving high school at twice the rate of African-Americans and three times that of whites...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS/HEARTLAND INSTITUTE

Taxes

THE TAX THREAT TO PROSPERITY

If Democrats succeed in raising taxes on the rich, this country will experience a fiscal crisis, says Arthur B. Laffer...

LAFFER ASSOCIATES/WALL STREET JOURNAL

Health Issues

CANADA CLINGS TO OUTDATED HEALTH MODEL

Canada's health systems are not designed to permit real choice to the consumer, say observers...

FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY/STOCKHOLM HEALTH CONSUMER POWERHOUSE/THE SUDBURY STAR

Energy Issues

AMERICA NEEDS FRANCE'S ATOMIC ANNE

Nuclear power constitutes a vital alternative to the greenhouse-gas spewing coal-power plants that account for over 50 percent of U.S. electricity generation...

NEW YORK TIMES

Global Warming

WARM SEAS MAY MEAN FEWER HURRICANES

As the Atlantic Ocean becomes hotter, hurricane intensity likely won't increase and might even deflate somewhat, according to scientists...

SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL

Global Warming

ANTARCTIC VOLCANOES IDENTIFIED AS A POSSIBLE CULPRIT IN GLACIER MELTING

Volcanic heat could be melting ice to water and contributing to thinning and speeding up of some of Antarctica's glaciers...

NATURE GEOSCIENCE/INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE

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