NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 1-4-2010

National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Monday, January 4, 2010 There are more than 500,000 subscribers that receive the Daily Policy Digest. Help us hit 1 million by Forwarding to a Friend. Yes, I want to support Daily Policy Digest and contribute today! Economic Issues ROTH 2010: SHOULD YOU CONVERT? Before deciding to convert a traditional Individual Retirement Account to a Roth IRA, there are a few important things to consider, say Pamela Villarreal, a Senior Policy Analyst, and Bethany Lowe, a Legislative Assistant, both with the NCPA... NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS Energy Issues NUCLEAR POWER AND THE U.S. ENERGY FUTURE At current rates of consumption with present technologies, uranium reserves in the United States can supply all of the world's existing nuclear reactors for 300 years, say Sterling Burnett, a Senior Fellow, and James Franko, a Legislative Assistant, both with the NCPA... NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS State and Local Issues TEXAS SHOWS ITS SWAGGER IN NEW POPULATION ESTIMATES Texas has many lessons for public policy, says Michael Barone, a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner... JEWISH WORLD REVIEW Education Issues HIGH-FLYING HOME-SCHOOLERS Home-schooled students score 34 to 39 percentage points above the average standardized test score, according to a report by the National Home Education Research Institute... MACKINAC CENTER Crime MORE GUNS, LESS CRIME IN '09 In a year when they binged on buying guns and ammunition, Americans had less murder, robbery, rape and property crime in 2009, according to an FBI report... AMERICAN THINKER Economic Issues PUBLIC EMPLOYEES LIVING LARGER THAN EVER AS ECONOMY STRUGGLES Government workers are doing quite well, despite a struggling economy and high unemployment rates, says Steven M. Greenhut, director of the Investigative Journalism Center and News Bureau at the Pacific Research Institute... GOLDWATER INSTITUTE About the DPD NCPA's Daily Policy Digest brings you the most wide-ranging public policy findings five times a week at no charge. DPD knows your time is valuable, so we find and summarize the most topical public policy issues from today's newspapers, magazines, websites, government reports, scholarly journals and think tanks. Visit the DPD Archives Visit the NCPA website The John Goodman Health Blog A new Consumer-Directed Health Care Blog. Forward this to a Friend Subscribe to the Daily Policy Digest. Unsubscribe: If you received this email in error, you can unsubscribe here. Connect with the NCPA on: Please do not reply to this email address as it is not monitored. For a list of NCPA departments and corresponding email addresses, please visit www.ncpa.org/contact. We depend on the financial support of individuals. We need your help to continue our work. Join the NCPA today! Dallas Headquarters 12770 Coit Rd., Suite 800 Dallas, TX 75251-1339 Phone: (972) 386-6272 Fax: (972) 386-0924 Copyright 2003-2010 National Center for Policy Analysis - All rights reserved