How vast is the American workforce? Here is some of the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics:
The U.S. has a working population of 144.8 million of which 5.5 million say they are looking for another job.
Some 10.3 million are self-employed while 7.9 million
Prior to privatisation a few years ago, the Canadian National Railway was in sorry shape. It ate up government subsidies and still lost money. It was burdened with debt, riddled by
inefficiency and beset by labour strife.
Today, five years after its sale to the private sector and radical deregulation, CNR
The school choice movement in the USA gained significant ground in 1999, especially in Florida, Illinois, Oklahoma and Oregon. In 2000, other initiatives appear promising in Michigan, California, New Mexico and Connecticut. Numerous other states have proposed and debated the issue of schools choice, raising the information level of the
An unusually high number of the top 25 best-selling book titles in economics on the Amazon.com website were written by free market economists. Despite their popular appeal, such books are rarely published by major trade publishers. If it were not for small university presses, many of the most important 20th
President Clinton’s former Labour Secretary, Robert Reich, has parted company with his old boss and presidential candidate Al Gore on the issue of school vouchers. Despite Clinton-Gore’s adamant opposition to them, Reich says “vouchers do work.”
He proposes to give children vouchers in amounts inversely related to family income, and makes
Patients in Canadian provinces that spend more per capita on government health care do not have shorter waiting times for surgeries and non-surgical treatments, and, in fact, fewer major surgeries and total procedures are performed in those provinces. Those are two conclusions of a new Fraser Institute study by Martin
Critics accuse the U.S. Forest Service of wrong-headed and short-sighted policies that have resulted in wildfire disasters and squandered resources. Some analysts recommend abolishing the agency and dividing up its assets between state governments and private industry.
Despite warnings from other agencies, the U.S. Forest Service allowed brush and dead
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says 1998, 1999 and 1997 were the “warmest years on record.” Critical minds might ask, “How long is the record, and how accurate is it?”
Before 1900 there were no reliable temperature records for more than 50 percent of the globe. But measurements of
In their ongoing campaign against chlorine-based chemical compounds, Greenpeace and a coalition of environmental activists called Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) is seeking to limit or prohibit the use of plastics called polyvinylchlorides (PVCs) in medical products.
There is no evidence of adverse effects from medical use of PVCs, confirmed by
Is there a widening gap between the technological “haves” and “have-nots?” Are low-income American families being left out of the era of computers and the Internet? Some politicians claim they are, and propose an array of expensive programmes to bring poor people into the fold.
But experts say there is wide
