Senior Fellow N. Michael Helvacian has been the principal of MNH Consulting since 2000. His clients have included Economatrix Research Associates, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute, the …
Distinguished Fellow Terry Neese is a Distinguished Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) where she heads the organization's Family Policy Center. In that role, Terry develops policy …
Senior Fellow Pamela Villarreal is an NCPA expert on retirement, economic growth and tax issues. Villarreal has written studies and analyses on specific economic and retirement topics such as minimum …
Banker greed and Wall Street are blamed, but government policies over the last 25 years are the root cause of the current financial crisis.
Congress is debating an economic stimulus package that would substantially increase federal spending, but may not speed recovery from the current recession. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that less than 40 percent of the proposed infrastructure spending in the stimulus bill will be spent within two years.
Pamela Villarreal is the NCPA's expert on retirement, Social Security, economic growth and tax issues. Villarreal has written studies and analyses on specific topics such as the danger of 401(k) …
Bob McTeer is a Distinguished Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), covering macroeconomic issues, including monetary policy, fiscal policy, tax and education policy Bob is best known …
The NCPA has launched a unique new speaker series called the Economic Policy Forum and Author Series. Through this forum for intellectual inquiry and discussion, we bring to the Dallas/Ft. Worth area some of the nation’s leading academics, experts and authors to speak.
Who can best help President Obama push through health care reform? The Post asked some Beltway observers for their thoughts, now that tax troubles have aborted the nomination of Thomas A. Daschle for secretary of health and human services and White House health czar. Below are contributions from Robert Shrum, Robert Moffit, Ruy Teixeira, Frank Micciche, William A. Galston, John Seigenthaler, Robert J. Blendon, John Goodman, Georges C. Benjamin and John Dingell.
As the Obama Administration kicks off its first-year programs, especially administration of large federal bailout programs, the question of the role of government in business and how far government can encroach on the daily operations of those businesses is foremost in public policy debate.
This Committee knows better than most that small business employees are much less likely to have access to employer-sponsored health coverage than the employees of larger firms. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation…
The one expenditure that a lot of people assume they have little or no control over is health care costs. Yet, a little common sense and a healthy dose of consumerism can reward savvy shoppers with significant savings without sacrificing care.
Rather than a one- or two-year stimulus package, we should be looking for permanent
fiscal changes that turn the economy around in a lasting way.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that only 7% of the stimulus spending in the House-passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (approx. $358 billion of the total) will be spent this year. By the end of 2010, only 38% will be spent. And by the end of 2011 only 67% will be spent. Including both tax cuts and stimulus checks, only one fifth of the total package will be spent in 2009.
As a new Congress begins considering health insurance issues, some members are already discussing proposals for a single-payer, universal health insurance plan.