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  • April 28, 2020
    The Hill (Online)
    Economic Recovery and Minimum Wages
    COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on American jobs. State‐​enforced shutdowns and social distancing have resulted in 26 million Americans being laid off and furloughed in recent weeks. Policymakers may soon start loosening business restrictions, hoping for a strong jobs …
    By Ryan Bourne and Chris Edwards
  • December 19, 2019
    Blog
    Surprise Medical Bills
    This week the House passed a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending package. As The New York Times noted, the package contains “a giant potpourri of unrelated spending and policy measures stuffed full of priorities with enough appeal to each political …
    By David Kemp and Peter Van Doren
  • Spring/Summer 2019
    Cato Journal
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    Ten Lessons from the Economic Crisis of 2008
    … misconceptions about the housing bubble. 453 Ten Lessons Policy Lessons from the Great Recession In my view, the most important policy lessons of the Great Recession related to monetary policy. But first I’d like to consider a few other …
    By Scott Sumner
  • December 29, 2017
    Cato Daily Podcast
    Inside Private Prisons
    Inside Private Prisons
    What incentives govern private prisons? Are they fundamentally different from state‐​run facilities? Do private prison operators or the unions that represent prison workers hold undue sway over policymakers? Lauren‐​Brooke Eisen is author of Inside Private Prisons.
    Featuring Lauren-Brooke Eisen and Caleb O. Brown
  • July 28, 2016
    Blog
    Not the Only Thing There’s Just Too Little Of
    Last night at the Democratic National Convention, many speakers made impassioned pleas for “common sense” gun reform. That might sound like a good idea but, like most public policy, gun policy is hard. As I wrote at the Washington Post …
    By Jonathan Blanks
  • January 28, 2016
    National Review (Online)
    Obama’s War on School Choice
    It’s National School Choice Week, which means hundreds of thousands of parents, students, teachers, and Americans of all kinds are attending more than 16,000 events nationwide celebrating policies that give children greater educational opportunity. Unsurprisingly, none of the …
    By Jason Bedrick
  • April 18, 2014
    Blog
    Copyright on the (Cato) Docket May 7th
    As the federal government turns its attention to reforming copyright laws, Cato will hold a book forum on Thomas Bell’s new book, Intellectual Privilege.
    By Jim Harper
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