In their 2008 Heritage Backgrounder, “A Safe and Bountiful Harvest: How to Ensure America’s Food Safety,” Daniella Markheim and Caroline Walsh note: Americans are shopping the world’s grocers like never before, importing almost $75...
The Stoa policy topic on agriculture and/or food safety has been selected: The United States federal government should substantially reform its agricultural and/or food safety policy in the United States. Two earlier posts discussed...
For the proposed Stoa resolution on labor law, students would research Constitutional history as well as legal and economic concepts. The United States federal government should substantially reform its laws governing the rights of...
A proposed Stoa resolution reads: “The United States federal government should substantially reform its agricultural and/or food safety policy in the United States.” In an earlier post I focused mostly on agricultural policy reform...
Highly recommended is Shutting down fraud, waste, and abuse: Moving from rhetoric to real solutions to federal benefits programs (Deloitte University Press, May 11, 2016) Deloitte’s research collection of studies outlines process reforms and...
Reform options abound for the Stoa resolution choice: “The United States federal government should substantially reform one or more of its means-tested benefits programs.” A key problem and expense with any current or proposed...
Consider the proposed Stoa resolution: The United States federal government should substantially reform its laws governing the rights of employers, employees, and/or labor organizations. There are a great many federal employment regulations prohibiting or...
Agricultural policy reform has been a past debate topic for public school and homeschool students. Food safety policy reform is discussed after agricultural policy. Public Choice economics explains the dynamics of federal agricultural policies:...
Why be stupid about California water, fish, and energy? Federal marine natural resource policies, not nature, are at the heart of stupid for California’s recent water shortage. The Federal government’s Central Valley Project “annually...
In 2012, the drought-stricken Western United States will ship more than 50 billion gallons of water to China. This water will leave the country embedded in alfalfa–most of it grown in California–and is destined...
