Category: News Release

Eighty million people in 20 countries are living under reformed Social Security systems with personal retirement accounts.

Before members of Congress enact a new prescription drug benefit for the elderly, they should look carefully at the experience of South Africans with medical savings accounts (MSAs).

Senior citizens near the time of their death can expect to generate more than $50,000 in medical, funeral and burial costs.

The cost to taxpayers of supporting Medicare in the future will soar if Congress adopts either the Democratic or Republican proposals to add a prescription drug benefit.

Former Reagan Administration Attorney General, Edwin Meese, will join forces with the ACLU and headline a Congressional briefing on the need to reform federal prison industries and amend current legislation.

This is great news, not only for the children in Cleveland's school choice program, but for children trapped in failing schools across the country. With this decision, government bureaucrats can no longer claim constitutional protection when they prevent those with the humblest of means from exercising the same choices most middle and upper-income families make.

What the government owes is ten times larger than official federal debt.

American workers today only get to keep 56 cents out of each additional dollar they earn, on the average.

House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt Wednesday sent a letter to President Bush describing the need for an open and honest debate on Social Security, and asking for the president's leadership.

NCPA's Women in the Economy project has compiled in-depth research about women's need for flexible work environments, concluding that governments and labor unions will not prompt necessary workplace reforms.

Critics of reforming Social Security have begun charging that investment-based reform of Social Security will shortchange women.

In its annual "State of the Air" report, the American Lung Association (ALA) is expected to assert tomorrow (May 1, 2002) that "more than 142 million Americans live in areas where the air they breathe puts them in risk.

While Social Security is ideal for married women who stay home, it penalizes women who work and pay taxes.

Following the release of the 2002 report of the Social Security and Medicare Trustees, NCPA Senior Fellow Dr. Thomas R. Saving, who is one of two public Trustees, said the nation's retirement programs continue to face a bleak future if reforms are not made.

Many of the laws and public institutions that impact how women interact with the economy on a daily basis need to be reformed to meet the modern reality.

Single mothers in unprecedented numbers have left welfare and found work over the past five years due to welfare reform legislation in 1996.

Because women are more likely to be alone in retirement, they are more likely to live in poverty.

Federal tax laws systematically discriminate against two-earner couples.

Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Rep. Barbara Cubin will be among the featured speakers at a Women's Agenda conference at the National Press Club hosted by the Women in the Economy project of the National Center for Policy Analysis.

Businesses employing prison inmates say they are more productive than domestic workers.

NCPA Senior Fellow Bruce Bartlett told the Senate Finance Committee this morning to abolish the debt limit, arguing that it is an ineffective tool for controlling the growth of federal indebtedness.

John C. Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis and a Waco native, will return to his hometown today to speak about Social Security reform at noon before the Rotary Club of Waco.

Most people believe that saving in tax-deferred retirement accounts, such as 401(k) plans and traditional IRAs, will reduce their total taxes over their lifetimes.

Despite a growing body of research that suggests expanded school choice may help student performance, choice is still not a meaningful option for low-income families.