Energy Innovation at the Department of Defense: Assessing the Opportunities
In recent years, driven by the demands of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as looming budgetary stress, the United States Department of Defense has increasingly focused on the ways in which energy affects its operations and the opportunities to improve its performance through the development and adoption of innovative energy technologies and practices.
Average Republican turnout in the presidential primaries through Super Tuesday was smaller than the average turnout in the primaries in the same states in both 2008 and 2000, the previous two years of competitive GOP contests.
Demographic Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Housing Markets
This paper summarizes six key demographic trends against the backdrop of the U.S. housing crisis, which has thrown markets into disarray and disrupted long-term trends in demography and housing demand.
Reforming Medicaid Waivers: The Governors’ Council Perspective on Federalism Today
With the federal government entering a period of unprecedented fiscal pressure, we see an opportunity to begin a fundamental realignment of the state-federal relationship.
One area of particular opportunity and concern – for states and the federal government – is Medicaid. This is because Medicaid, which provided $401.4 billion in combined federal and state resources to finance health care for nearly 60 million people in 2010 alone, is by far the largest state-federal program in existence today.
By developing specific recommendations for improving the Medicaid waiver program, we hope to generate insights and provide a model for improving the state-federal relationship in ways that may be applicable to other areas of significant public policy importance as well.
Meeting the Challenge: Stopping the Clock
This is BPC’s fourth report on the most immediate national security challenge facing our nation: Iran’s continued progress towards nuclear weapons capability.
Transforming Health Care: The Role of Health IT
Despite the introduction of IT to nearly every other aspect of modern life, the U.S. health care system remains largely paper-based. The authorization of up to $30 billion to support health IT under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 has spurred significant private sector investment to further increase the use of health IT.
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