NCPA's Morgan Reynolds On Fox News
What can be done to protect our schools from the recent outbreak of school shootings?
Dispelling the Myth of a Cost-Free Global Warming Treaty
Bear in mind that all human activity combined contributes something like 3 to 5 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. If then, global warming is in fact occurring, is it likely that humans can do much about it?
Suing Gun Manufacturers, Off-Target And Hazardous To Our Health
H. Sterling Burnett, a senior policy analyst with the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis, responded today to the decisions of Los Angeles and San Francisco city officials' to sue more than 40 gun manufacturers, as well as gun dealers and firearms trade groups asking: "When will this dangerous lawsuit parade stop?"
NCPA's Idea House Named CNS "Site of the Week"
Alexandria, VA -The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) was named the Internet "Site of the Week" Monday by the Conservative News Service, the Internet News Wire.
How to End School Violence
Dr. Morgan Reynolds, director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis, is available to discuss the growing trends in juvenile crime and what Americans can do to stop the violence following yet another school shooting.
Minimum Wage Teen-age Job Killer
Congress appears likely to raise the minimum wage again this year, probably from $5.15 per hour to $6.15 over three years. This will be the second minimum wage increase passed by the Republican Congress. The last increase was enacted in 1996, raising the minimum wage from $4.25 to $4.75 on October 1, 1996, and to the present $5.15 per hour on September 1, 1997.
Divorce and Social Security
The debate over Social Security reform has for the most part ignored the inequities in how the system treats families. These inequities derive from the adjustments that Social Security makes to benefits where spouses, survivors and divorced former partners of workers are involved.
NCPA: STUDY SAYS COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS DOESN'T JUSTIFY GLOBAL WARMING ACCORD
The United States would have to cut its energy use by one-quarter – the equivalent of stopping all highway, rail, sea and air traffic permanently – to meet the requirements of the Kyoto global warming accord.
The Five Biggest Political Mistakes of the 90's
The 20th century has been a great one for big policy ideas, both good and bad.
Hatton W. Sumners Distinguished Lecture Series
The 20th century has been a great one for big policy ideas, both good and bad. In the bad corner: communism, fascism and socialism, three concepts based on the idea that government is smarter than people. The biggest and baddest was communism. It killed tens of millions of people and crushed the spirits and deprived of opportunity of hundreds of millions more. It kept the world at war – The Cold War – for 45 years, and was the dominating factor of two generations of American foreign policy.
NCPA TO RELEASE FIRST MAJOR INDEPENDENT STUDY ON THE POTENTIAL COSTS OF THE GLOBAL WARMING ACCORD
The United States would have to cut its energy use by one-quarter – the equivalent of stopping all highway, rail, sea and air traffic permanently – to meet the requirements of the Kyoto global warming accord.
NCPA to Hold Capitol Hill Briefing on "Prospects for Social Security Reform" with Archer, Shaw and Sperling
What are the real prospects of Social Security reform this year?
A Bill to Save Social Security
The new Social Security reform proposal put forward by Congressmen Bill Archer and Clay Shaw has a worthy aim: to secure future retirement benefits for today's young people without increasing taxes on workers or reducing benefits to retirees.
Texas Already Has School Choice
Should parents be able to choose the school their children attend? While legislators in Austin are debating this hot topic, many are pretending not to know that Texas already has a de facto system of school choice, and it works reasonably well so long as you're not poor.
Reforming the U.S. Health Care System
The number of Americans without health insurance is 43 million and rising. Unwise government policies are mainly to blame.
Why Not Abolish the Community Reinvestment Act?
Before a bank can merge with another bank – or even open a new branch – it must get permission from federal regulators. And in giving that permission, regulators are obliged by the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA), to consider whether the lender has served the entire community, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.
Global Warming Policy: Some Economic Implications
Economists often use cost-benefit analysis to determine whether government action should be taken and, if so, what action will produce the best results at the least cost. This study compares the worldwide benefits of U.S. reduction of CO2 emissions with the worldwide costs.