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  • November 14, 2014
    Legal Briefs
    Kurtz v. Verizon New York, Inc.
    … owners their “full compensation rights,” the plaintiffs argue that the company continuously flouts this requirement “as a matter of corporate policy and practice,” thus violating both the plaintiffs’ rights to procedural due process — for example, by not even notifying them …
    By J. David Breemer, Christopher M. Kieser, Ilya Shapiro, & Trevor Burrus
  • August 6, 2014
    Blog
    Virginia Reaches Deal With Uber and Lyft
    … legislation that allows for innovative companies such as Uber and Lyft to fairly compete against taxis, as R Street Institute policy analyst Zach Graves stated in a news release: Public interest advocates should be wary that this is only a …
    By Matthew Feeney
  • May 17, 2012
    Blog
    Huge Victory for Educational Freedom in NH
    … on private education beyond basic reporting to the department of taxation. I provided analysis and advice on education tax credit policy structure to individuals in New Hampshire over the past year, but a policy analyst can only explain why certain …
    By Adam B. Schaeffer
  • February 10, 2011
    Blog
    The Growing Chorus for Criminal Justice Reform
    … The Smart on Crime report also points out the need for reform of asset forfeiture laws, building on the excellent Policing for Profit report produced by the Institute for Justice last year. Conservatives see the need for reform as well …
    By David Rittgers
  • August 12, 2010
    Investor’s Business Daily
    How Mortgage Market Should Be Fixed
    … industries. Much of the current subsidies also do little more than run up house prices, without actually improving affordability. Any policy that increases the price of one of life’s basic necessities — shelter — is a policy we should question if …
    By Mark A. Calabria
  • May 26, 2010
    Blog
    Barack Obama’s War on ‘Chooming’
    … on some harmless fun three decades ago. It’s to ask why he isn’t doing more to change a policy that treats people engaged in such activities as criminals. As I note in the column, in his new National …
    By Gene Healy
  • July 6, 2009
    Blog
    Senator Webb: Time to reinvent criminal justice system
    … type as rock‐​ribbed as Webb expresses willingness to consider legalizing or decriminalizing drugs, excitement follows. Read the whole thing. Tomorrow Cato will be hosting a Hill Briefing about federal drug policy. For additional Cato work, go here and here.
    By Tim Lynch
  • February 25, 2009
    Blog
    Obama on Education: Ho-Hum and Hold On
    … already encourage way too many people to pursue higher education. As I lay out in Cato’s new Handbook for Policymakers, the six‐​year graduation rate for bachelor’s students is hovering at just around 56 percent, literacy levels of …
    By Neal McCluskey
  • December 11, 2007
    Blog
    Goose:Gander / Illegal Immigrants:Gun Owners
    … much to control illegal immigration. If this process were “strengthened” with a national EEV system, continuing document fraud would drive policymakers inexorably toward “strengthening” the identity cards used in the system. Indeed, the leading immigration bill this summer would have …
    By Jim Harper
  • November 24, 2004
    Northern Virginia Journal
    Social Security: The Red and the Blue
    … Moynihan were among the earliest proponents of individual accounts. The Democratic Leadership Council and its think tank arm, the Progressive Policy Institute, have been supportive. Even former president Bill Clinton was willing to consider the idea. Some Washington observers believe …
    By Michael D. Tanner
  • April 23, 1996
    Bridge News
    Everything’s Coming Up Roses
    … they attempt to deal with problems of population, resources and environment.” Economists insist that one must examine the consequences of policies before adopting them. Economics demands that people face up to the trade‐​offs involved in any governmental activity. But …
    By Julian L. Simon
  • Fall/Winter 1995
    Cato Journal
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    No Turning Back: Dismantling the Fantasies of Environmental Thinking by Wallace Kaufman
    … survive. He reviews a number of dire predictions about the environment, showingthem tobe overblown, without scientific foundation, and precursors of policy prescriptions with outrageously high cost/benefit ratios. Kaufman points out that previous false predictions of doom, such as those …
    By Ben Bolch
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