Daily Policy Digest

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

• Robots Work Their Way into Small Factories

  Robots have easily transitioned into the workplace because some are now equipped with sensors and internal maps that allow it to move through crowded corridors and cluttered spaces...

• Obama Administration Issues New Rules to Combat Tax Inversions

  The Treasury Department tightened tax rules Monday to deter U.S. companies from moving their legal headquarters to lower-tax countries, part of a White House effort to slow a wave of so-called corporate inversions that effectively reduce federal revenues...

• Feds Lack the Data to Determine How Well Key Obamacare Provisions Are Working

  The accounting system used by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid, which manages Obamacare, doesn't track "expenditure totals for CCIIO-related polling, focus groups, or advertising and other public relations activities," GAO said in a recent report...

• Policy Implications of Autonomous Vehicles

  Congress should stop funding expensive and obsolete rail transit projects, which will have no place in a future likely to be characterized by widespread sharing of self-driving cars, writes Randal O'Toole...

• Overselling the Earned Income Tax Credit

  Twenty-seven million families received the EITC in 2012 at a cost of $63 billion, or twice the cost of TANF and associated state programs...