NCPA Daily Policy Digest (8/31/10)
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Trade Issues Colombia Free Trade AgreementIf President Obama would sign the pending Colombia free trade agreement, U.S. exports would rise $1.1 billion, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission... NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS Economic Issues The Folly Of Subsidizing UnemploymentThe jobless rate could be as low as 6.8 percent, instead of 9.5 percent, if jobless benefits hadn't been extended to 99 weeks, concludes Robert Barro, an economics professor at Harvard University and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution... WALL STREET JOURNAL Economic Issues Record Number In Government Anti-Poverty ProgramsExpanded federal safety net programs won't contract after the economy recovers. In fact, they're much harder to unwind in the long term, says Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute... USA TODAY Crime The Government Can Use GPS To Track Your MovesYou do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway -- and no reasonable expectation that the government is not tracking your movements, says Adam Cohen, a former member of the New York Times editorial board... TIME MAGAZINE Government Issues Public Pension Records Release DeniedInformation needed to assess Ohio's pension systems and its cost to private citizens is being denied to news organizations, says think tank... BUCKEYE INSTITUTE International Issues Bury The GraveyardAfghans have long understood the tendency of foreigners to view them as untamable savages and have been happy to leverage the stereotype to their advantage, says Thomas Barfield, an anthropologist at Boston University... FOREIGN POLICY |
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