NCPA Daily Policy Digest for September 14, 2011

Did Stimulus Dollars Hire the Unemployed?

Less than half of the workers hired at organizations receiving stimulus funds after January 31, 2009, were unemployed at the time they were hired...

India's Mangled School Reforms

India's new school voucher program appeared promising at first, but the program came with regulations that would actually cripple the private school market...

Is the Current Crisis Worse Than the Lehman Collapse?

This year, the Federal Reserve and global policymakers face a much more complicated situation that is rapidly turning into a systemic crisis...

Poverty Still on Rise in United States

Since 2007 -- when the 2007-2009 recession began -- the poverty rate has increased by 2.6 percentage points...

Health Law Will Increase Costs

A new report says the market for individual policies under the new health law "will experience premium increases as compared to pre-reform premiums"...

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