Medicare Reform Through The Markets
Luigi Crevoisier writes: On April 16th 2013, I attended an event at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) named “Markets, not madness: Medicare reform that works”. The panelists of this event discussed the results of a projection study done by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which found that Medicare expenditure is projected to grow to 1.079 […]
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Marital Decisions
Amy Kasman writes: The topic I am investigating – broadly speaking – is the effect economic considerations have on the marital decisions of citizens. The most salient causal mechanism for this is tax law. Specifically, because of the joint-filing system of the United States tax code, the more equal the incomes of two partners are, […]
Gender and Wage Discrimination
Andre Gardiner writes: Last Thursday I attended and summarized an AEI event on gender and racial disparity in wages. Panelists on both sides of the political spectrum joined AEI scholar and City University of New York’s Baruch College professor June O’Neill to discuss her and Dave O’Neill’s new book, “The Declining Importance of Race and […]
Slashing Biomedical Research Funding Slashes Hope
Prerana Bhattacharya writes: Biomedical research “means PROGRESS, means HOPE, means LIFE!” Screamed over 10,000 people who crowded the streets of Washington DC near the Carnegie Library on April 8, 2013. Disease survivors, patients, advocates, scientists and policy-makers from all over the nation gathered one mile from the capitol building for the Medical Research Rally. This […]
Derek Chollet Quoted in Washington Post
Assistant Secretary of Defense Derek Chollet, who came and talked to CIW students this semester, was quoted in today’s Washington Post: Derek Chollet, assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, who appeared along with McRaven, told McCain, “We don’t have a very big footprint in the country right now . . . for security reasons, so […]
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Followup to Thursday’s Class
Nate Silver on same-sex marriage and political support: Why are senators shifting their positions so rapidly? Obviously, this mirrors the shift in opinion among the general public to some degree. But while the public’s increase in support for same-sex marriage has been exceptionally linear and steady, the number of senators endorsing it has increased at […]
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