Computers have greatly facilitated the compilation of information including, unfortunately, information on the contents of another fellow’s wallet. That’s known as identify theft and it is one of America’s fastest-growing crimes.
The Privacy Rights Clearing House estimates that 500,000 people are victimised by the crime each year, costing financial
State taxes exert important effects on state economic activity. Researchers from the Rio Grande Foundation of New Mexico studied the effects of flattening the state income tax, reducing the gross receipts tax (GRT) from 5 percent to 3 percent, removing the GRT from services, cutting mineral taxes in half and
Since the days of Florence Nightingale, there has been a debate over which medical tasks a nurse should perform. Trained nurse practitioners offer primary care that appears to be just as good as the care that doctors can provide, say researchers.
University of Bristol researchers reviewed all published studies comparing the
Peter Bauer, a Hungarian-born British economist was a pioneer in development economics. Several weeks ago he learned that he was to receive the inaugural Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, a prestigious $500,000 prize awarded every two years by the Cato Institute in Washington. On May 2, he died quietly
Since the days of Florence Nightingale, there has been a debate over which medical tasks a nurse should perform. Trained nurse practitioners offer primary care that appears to be just as good as the care that doctors can provide, say researchers.
University of Bristol researchers reviewed all published studies comparing the
At a time when the U.S. is fighting a life-or-death struggle against terrorism, its federal government has locked away valuable oil deposits in favour of a policy of buying oil from Americas adversaries. Other resources have similarly been placed off-limits.
The U.S. federal government has sealed away from oil
The Wall Street Journal has called the U.S. farm bill “a 10-year, $173.5 billion bucket of slop.” Many other editorialists and critics were even less charitable.
If it passes as expected, only President Bush could save the country from this 70 percent increase in spending on agriculture. But he is reported
Anticipating a favourable Supreme Court ruling this spring on the Cleveland school voucher programme, inner-city Christian churches across America are quietly opening their own schools and making preparations for an expected flood of neighbourhood children who soon may have government vouchers to pay for their special brand of private education.
Some economists are urging their governments to take a look at Mexico’s Progresa programme if they want to find a model for a foreign aid programme that achieves accountability and results in economic development. Progresa involves government cash payments to the low-income families of youngsters who regularly attend school and
Sixteen people were recently killed in Germany’s school shooting. This follows the killing of 14 regional legislators in a Swiss canton in September, and the massacre of eight city council members in a Paris suburb last month. Yet Europe has the kind of gun laws gun-control advocates admire.
Germans seeking
