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No, This Is Not a Housing Recovery
Many government officials claim that the country is nearing a gradual housing recovery, yet the facts do not support this claim. Concerns over future interest ...
Does School Choice Reduce Crime?
In measuring the effectiveness of current education policies, many studies immediately turn to traditional indicators such as test scores. However, reliance on this proxy for ... Read more
Parking Minimums Create Too Many Parking Spots
Throughout New York City and several other metropolitan areas across the country, local governments enforce effective parking minimums. These regulations require residential building developers to ... Read more
How to Think about Inequality
The 2012 presidential election promises to place greater emphasis on income inequality than any election before it. President Obama has stirred significant class resentment as ... Read more
Canada Ups Retirement Age in Bid to Balance Budget
Canada's center-right government called for the retirement age to be raised and for major public service cuts recently, in an austerity budget that aims to ... Read more
U.S. Postal Service Needs to Privatize in Order to Survive
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has been struggling financially for several years. Fighting technological innovations that have made many of its services obsolete, the enterprise ... Read more
Premium Support in Medicare
Policymakers are increasingly looking toward the federal government's entitlement programs as a means of cutting deficits and returning spending to sustainable levels. To that end, ... Read more
Why Do So Many Americans Drop Out of College?
The phrase "dropout factory" is ordinarily applied to America's failing high schools -- the ones where students are expected to fall through the cracks, where ... Read more
Are Two Heads Better than One? Evidence from the Thrift Crisis
In a new study in the Journal of Banking and Finance, researchers employ a natural experiment from the 1980s, predating the ubiquitous clamor for independence ... Read more
2012 ABCs of School Choice
The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice recently released the 2012 edition of its annual ABCs of School Choice, the comprehensive guide to school choice programs ... Read more
Government Spending and Private Activity
A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research asks whether increases in government spending stimulate private activity. The first part of the paper studies ... Read more
Lottery Tax Rates Vary Greatly By State
With the Mega Millions jackpot recently reaching a record $540 million, Americans in 43 states and the District of Columbia were lining up to buy ... Read more
The Cliff's Notes Version of Republican Health Reform
Representative Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) has once again proposed a budget plan that would seek to end the unsustainable growth of the federal government's entitlement programs. ... Read more
Canada Eliminates Penny that Costs Penny-and-a-Half to Make
Canada will withdraw the penny from circulation this year, saving taxpayers about C$11 million (US$11 million) annually and forcing retailers to round prices to the ... Read more
Like the United States, Europe Wrestles With Health Care
The United States has been absorbed by the recent Supreme Court case on the future of health care. But Americans are not alone. Several European ... Read more
U.S. Education Reform and National Security
A Council on Foreign Relations-sponsored Independent Task Force report on U.S. Education Reform and National Security has found that education woes in the United States ... Read more
Effort to Pay Hospitals Based on Quality Didn't Cut Death Rates
Medicare's largest effort to pay hospitals based on how they perform -- an inspiration for key parts of the health care law -- did not ... Read more
Long-Term Care Insurance Policy Costs Rising
Just as aging baby boomers are realizing they may need long-term care insurance, the marketplace is shrinking, the cost of premiums is soaring and providers ... Read more
Scorecard on Local Health System Performance
The first-ever Scorecard on Local Health System Performance by the Commonwealth Fund allows Americans to assess the efficacy of their regions' health care quality on ... Read more
"Buffett Rule" Would Raise Less than $5 billion in Taxes a Year
The Obama administration has placed a great deal of emphasis on the implementation of the "Buffett Rule" as a means to ensure that everyone pays ... Read more
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The Threat of a Global Caliphate is Real
A number of Islamist political parties and Jihadist guerrilla groups have called for the restoration of the Caliphate by uniting Muslim nations, either through political action or by force. ... Read more
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