Between 1999 and 2009, the cost of the average family policy jumped 131 percent, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Their research (available at policyuncertainty.com) shows that, on average, U.S. economic policy uncertainty has been 50% higher in the past two years than it has been since 1985.
Budget balance on average, together with wide and well-timed fluctuations around the average according to circumstances, is clearly the policy to aim for.
Its slow coast down was largely on the back of explicit policy aimed at pushing down the average hours worked by full time employees.
The fuel economy standard (FES) policy regulates the sales-weighted average fuel economy of new vehicles (designed to be similar to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, which were enacted in 1978 and have been recently tightened).
After a fatality, the policy is paid after 48 hours on average.
Over time these statements become accepted as true by the media, the average citizen, and the politicians charged with making policy and passing important legislation targeted at fiscal issues.
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Among the oddities of this policy: While corporations would, on average, pay no more in tax than they do today, nearly one million successful businesses that report their income on individual tax returns would get clobbered.
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If Tax Policy Center estimates are correct and the average federal tax rate on American households increases by five percent or more, then Californians would be wise to keep some of their disposable income by betting on Vegas in 2013.
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In the growing public sector, handouts topped the average with 33.8% reflecting the expansionistic fiscal policy at home.
The Tax Policy Center estimates it would result in an average federal tax rate of 33.7 percent by the time the proposal is fully effective in 2015.
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In Asia, most markets edged lower, although Japan's Nikkei Stock Average bucked the trend, surging 3% ahead of a policy announcement by the Bank of Japan on Thursday where additional easing measures are expected to be announced.
On the jobs front, again according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the private sector has created an average of approximately 154, 000 jobs a month for the past 30-month time period though the national unemployment rate remains above 8%.
It is true that real interest rates in America are above their 30-year average of 2% but that does not mean that policy is tight.
If the U.S. wants to recapture its former 3.3% average rate of growth, it had better get serious about removing policy barriers that prevent startups from reaching their potential.
The big problem is that economics and monetary policy is quite complex and much beyond the understanding of the average person.
In Asia, China's Shanghai Composite slipped 0.3%, weighed down by Europe, while Japan's Nikkei Stock Average gained 0.6% after the Bank of Japan eased monetary policy by expanding its asset-purchase program.
But now the Washington policy institute, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), has proposed further trimming of the average workweek, noting that more play and less work could help slow global warming significantly.
At a panel discussion this afternoon, my Tax Policy Center colleague Eric Toder described how eliminating every tax preference would cut average after-tax incomes by more than 11 percent.
Drivers who bought a one-car, single-driver policy last year and had one violation in their driving history paid an average of 18 percent more for car insurance than drivers with no violations.
"Most people will tell you that they are above-average drivers and stock investors, " says Amitai Etzioni, director of the Institute for communitarian policy studies at George Washington University.
As a recent paper from the Centre for Policy Studies pointed out, between August 2007 and May 2010 the Bank's average forecast for inflation a year ahead was 1.9%, but the average outturn was 3.2%.
They knew that China's fertility rate, or the average number of children born to each woman, was in decline even before the one-child policy began in 1980.
To bring the average for the 2001-2020 period up to 3%, the economy would have to expand at an average real rate of 4.65% from 2012 to 2020 (it is too late for policy changes to impact 2011).
The Committee also will continue through the end of the year its program to extend the average maturity of its holdings of securities as announced in June, and it is maintaining its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities.
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Despite a minority government that's sinking in the polls after a series of scandals involving key lawmakers and policy missteps, some 71% of Australians trust their political institutions, compared with an OECD average of 56%.
While fundamental factors clearly played a role in driving down house prices that were at excessive levels two years ago, we have argued in a paper (to be published in the Berkeley Electronic Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy) that in most markets house values are today lower than what is consistent with the average level of affordability in the past 20 years.
"It's been very good to get beyond this finger pointing, and the U.S. saying, 'You should keep those horrible drugs out of the hands of all of our above-average children, ' " said Gil Kerlikowske, head of the White House Office on National Drug Control Policy.
"There are some real serious pockets of problems, " said Chris Jennings, the president's domestic policy adviser, adding that immunization rates in some inner-city areas are 20 percent below the national average.
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