NCPA Daily Policy Digest (7/28/11)

A Tale of Two Shale States

Pennsylvania's state Department of Labor reports that Marcellus drilling has created 72,000 jobs between the fourth quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2011...

Medigap Limits Could Save Medicare Money

Restricting coverage of deductibles by Medigap plans could save anywhere from $1.5 billion to $4.6 billion a year...

Does Government Assistance Hurt Those It Is Trying to Help?

Today, some 44 million Americans are on food stamps -- in 2007, it was 26 million...

Health Reform No Cure for Economic Woes

Unemployment remains stuck above 9 percent more than two years after the recession officially ended...

Special Interest at Heart of CARE Act

The CARE Act would allow states to pass laws restricting out-of-state alcoholic beverage sales as long as those laws do not "intentionally" discriminate against out-of-state producers...

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