Policy initiatives to regulate greenhouse gas emissions are fast becoming a dominant feature of regional public policy. The initiatives commonly involve setting goals to reduce emissions below a baseline or business-as-usual level. The Western Climate Initiative is one such program, and has been...

This report measures the impacts of right-to-work laws on the economy, measured by employment growth, income growth, and migration. Looking backward, it examines what would have happened to state employment and income growth had Oregon enacted right-to-work legislation in 1985, the same year as...

The U.S. economy has recently suffered its deepest and most prolonged recession since the Great Depression. The fundamental causes of the recession and the slow recovery are the result of two decades of poorly conceived housing credit and other policies and the adoption of long-ago discarded...