The Meat Inspection Debate
Government regulation prohibit measures that could make our food safer.
What if the Government Shuts Down?
The latest crisis invented by the national media is the great October "train wreck" – a confrontation between a liberal president and a conservative Congress – that will "shut down the government."
Why We're Gaining Wetlands
Over the last few years, a largely unnoticed transformation has taken place. Where once wetlands were being drained and filled, today they are being restored at such a rapid pace that the U.S. is now gaining wetlands.
Bob Dole's Welfare Reform Plan
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole has introduced a major welfare reform bill. The bill includes some important provisions, and takes the first steps toward general welfare reform.
Medical Savings Accounts and the States: Growth From the Grassroots
While health care reform apparently has been assigned a low priority on the congressional agenda this year, the states have been aggressively and successfully moving toward free-market reform. Legislation allowing Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) has been introduced or enacted in a majority of the states.
The Impact of ERISA
While it is clear that the ERISA exemption has led to distortions in the current health care system, giving states more control over the self-funded plans would only make matters worse.
Reforming Medicaid
While growth in private-sector health care spending has declined recently, spending on Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the nation's poor, has continued to explode – growing at an average annual rate of 19.1 percent between 1990 and 1994.
Multiculturalism and Economic Growth
Multiculturalism is in vogue today among academicians, politicians and the media. But anthropologists identify cultural diversity as a universal source of social conflict and often as a barrier to economic progress as well as personal freedom.