This brief presents contrasting views on the effects of public infrastructure investment on private sector productivity. Aschauer states that the slower rate of productivity growth since the early 1970s--coupled with an aging population, the declining proportion of workers to the total...

Recent survey results and anecdotal evidence appear to indicate that workers sometimes sacrifice job opportunities by remaining in their current position in order to retain health benefits. If "job-lock" is real, the nation pays an economic price in terms of a misallocation of workersamong...

While discussion about health care encompasses a wide array of issues-inadequate access, the growing share of national resources devoted to health care, the incidence of cost-shifting from the uninsured to the insured, and differences in premium costs between seemingly similar insured...