March 23, 2005 | Policy Report by JOEL SCHWARTZ & GEORGE TAYLOR

Air Quality False Alarm: An Analysis of the Natural Resource Defense Councils Heat Advisory Report

This report shows that air pollution will decline in the future, regardless of whether there is global warming, and that NRDC exaggerates likely future temperature increases in any case. Section II lays out the major points of our critique of the NRDC report. Section III includes specific responses to the report’s claims. Section IV displays trends in air pollution and temperature in a number of metropolitan areas, including the fifteen areas that NRDC focuses on in its report.

February 1, 2004 | Policy Report by RANDAL O'TOOLE, GRANT R. GULIBON

Great Rail Disasters: The Impact of Rail Transit on Urban Livability

Abstract

This paper grades rail transit in twenty-three urban areas on thirteen different criteria:

December 31, 2003 | Policy Report by ANDREW J. COULSON

Reinventing Education in Pennsylvania: Fulfilling the Promise of Public Schooling

For more than 250 years, Pennsylvanians have striven to bring academic excellence within reach of their children. In the mid 1700s, when Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and William & Mary colleges were still chiefly seminaries for training clergymen, Benjamin Franklin led a campaign to found an academy of literary, commercial, and scientific studies. That precedent-setting academy went on to become the University of Pennsylvania.

November 1, 2002 | Policy Report by WILLIAM T. WILSON^ PH. D

The Impact of Compulsory Unionism on Economic Development

Executive Summary

With increasing global competition taking a toll on U.S. manufacturing jobs, and state governments and municipalities struggling to achieve greater operating efficiencies in the face of declining revenues and increasing costs, it is time for Pennsylvania policymakers to reassess the costs and benefits of compulsory unionism on the state’s economic development. The evidence suggests that the Keystone State and its citizens would greatly benefit if Pennsylvania became a “right-to-work” state.