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The Price of Shortsightedness: Emergency Spending’s $2 Trillion Interest Tab
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett Over the past 30 years, we estimate that emergency spending has generated almost $2 trillion in…
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USCIS Springs Unseasonable Costs and Demands on American Employers
Angelo A. Paparelli and David J. Bier With spring approaching, US businesses that sponsor noncitizen workers for employment‐based immigration benefits…
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The Center for Immigration Studies Is Still Wrong About Illegal Immigrant Crime in Texas
Alex Nowrasteh Last week, I published updated research on illegal immigrant homicide rates in Texas, settling a disagreement with the Center for…
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Taiwan Arms Backlog, February 2024 Update: Long Waits for F-16 Upgrade, Guided Bombs
Eric Gomez and Benjamin Giltner The backlog of US weapons sales owed to Taiwan did not change much in February…
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Efficient, Timely and Reliable: A Framework for Election Law in Nevada
Walter Olson After some time in the making, my paper for the Nevada Policy Research Institute is now out, entitled…
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The State of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Analysis
Ryan Bourne President Joe Biden will reportedly use his State of the Union (SOTU) speech to blame corporations for high…
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Border Patrol: 70 Percent Drop in Successful Evasions Since Title 42 Ended
David J. Bier This updates an earlier post. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens confirmed last week that the number of…
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Utah Becomes Seventh State to Let Patients Access Prescribing Clinical Psychologists
Jeffrey A. Singer Almost exactly one year after Colorado became the sixth state to allow mental health patients access to…
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Unintended Consequences of Vaccine Mandates: Good Intentions Are Not Enough
Jeffrey Miron Non‐libertarians tend to believe that if X is good (bad), then policies encouraging (discouraging) X are beneficial. (X might be…
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Oregon Lawmakers Roll back New Drug War Strategy and Revert to Decades-Old Approach Linked to Soaring Overdose Deaths
Jeffrey A. Singer Oregon voters passed Measure 110 in November 2020, which put an end to caging people who choose…
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