POLICY STUDIES

2008 February 08-1
Iowa Higher-Education's Third Way:  Community Colleges' 2+2 Programs
March 08-2
The Burden of Government
April 08-3
Higher Education in Iowa: An External Assessment
2007 August 07-1
For the Children?  No, for the Politicians!
November 07-2
Government or Capitalism as a Solution to Rural Population Loss?
December 07-3
Federal Tax Deductibility in Iowa:  Who Benefits and Why it Should Continue
2007 December 07-4
Spending Our Transportation Dollars Wisely
December 07-5

Is the SILO LOSST?

December 07-6
SCHIP:  Don't Just Sink it, Reform it
2006 March 06-1
The Iowa Values Fund:  More Promise Than Performance
March 06-2
The Planning Penalty:  How Smart Growth Makes Housing Unaffordable
March 06-3
The Project Labor Agreement for the Iowa Events Center:  An Unnecessary Burden on the Workers, Businesses, and Taxpayers of Iowa
2005 August 05-1
Verizon and MCI:  A Merger that Promotes Competition
November 05-2
Who Guards the Guardians?
 
2004

January 04-1
Township Government in Iowa

   
2003

January 03-1
Privatizing Iowa's Prisons

March 03-2
Tax Reduction and Economic Growth in Iowa

 
September 03-3 WorldCom's Fraud and Bankruptcy:  Promoting the Public Interest while Staving Off the Telecom Vultures
2003

October 03-4
Social Security Reform and Union Households in Iowa

December 03-5 Iowa's State Budget:  Fiscal Year 2004 Update  
2002

February 02-1
Iowa's $300,000,000
Sales Tax Increase

 

April 02-2
Breaking Microsoft by Shattering Windows:  The Costly Assault on Consumers by Iowa's Attorney General
June 02-3
The Decline in Welfare Caseloads in the United States and Iowa:  Reform or the Economy?
2002

October 02-4
Iowa's State Budget: Spending Our Way to a Crisis

   
2001 April 01-1
The Myths of
Environmental Education
August 01-2
Innovative School Facility Partnerships:  Downtown, Airport, and Retail Space
October 01-3
The Decline of General Education at Iowa's Public Universities
2000 July 00 - 1
A Declaration of Independence from Death Taxation:  A Bipartisan Appeal
   
1999 December 99 - 1 The Status of Environmental Education in Iowa and America December 99-2  The Government Web December 99-3
Access to the Internet:  Regulation or Markets?