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Recently, there have been calls for Congress to beef up the Officeof Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).  From fiscalyear 1996 to FY 1999, the COPS budget peaked at $1.4 billionannually. Since then, the COPS budget has steadily declined: For FY2008, it was $320 million.

The 30-year FRM is now the dominant mortgage product in the U.S., but it did not become so pervasive simply because of the GSEs.

How secure are American jobs? Conventional wisdom holds that Americans are more likely to be laid off today than they were a generation ago and that globalization and corporate greed are putting more and more jobs at risk. Good jobs are being outsourced to countries where workers earn a frac­tion of American wages. The era of jobs for life is over; even long-time employees are no longer safe. Today, it seems, no job is secure.

Last year’s changes in health insurance enrollment are of particular interest, as 2014 was the year in which key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) took effect—most notably, the offering of subsidies for coverage purchased through the new government exchanges and the ACA’s Medicaid expansion.

Believing that words are "the essential units on which acivilization rests," The Heritage Foundation has provided a forumfor lectures by public officials, scholars, and policy experts onthe leading issues of the day: a pantheon of the most influentialconservatives in America in the last part of the 20th century andthe first decade of the 21st.

National Health Insurance was under intense discussion at the 2022 Public Health Association of SA. Spotlight assesses the views of public health experts.

The economy added 167,000 jobs in December, above the average for the past year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The unemployment rate held steady at a very low 4.5 percent, and wages increased due to the tight labor market. Today's report reflects an economy that is growing strongly, despite the weakened housing market. The new Congress and the President should enact policies to continue the economic expansion, such as making permanent the pro-growth tax cuts of 2003, slowin...

Federal law caps the wages of over 8 million middle class workers. Union contracts set both a wage floor and a wage ceiling--unionized employers may not give productive workers pay raises outside the collectively bargained contract. Unions usually insist on seniority-based pay and rarely allow employers to reward hard-working individuals. No matter how hard most union members work, they cannot earn higher wages than specified by their contracts.

The president has countless things to worry about, but at least he can be confident his children are safe. Whether the First Family is vacationing in the Grand Canyon or hosting town halls in New Hampshire, Secret Service agents are always on the job.

Federal, state, and local policy mistakes unnecessarily increase the cost of living for the average American household by $4,440 per year.