How Inefficient Health Care, Education and Housing May Be Damaging U.S. Productivity

Worrying about the steady decline in productivity growth has become routine in policy circles; specifying practical solutions hasn’t. A recent report from polling company Gallup, however, singles out anticompetitive and wasteful practices by teachers’ and doctors’ associations, universities and local governments. The collaboration with the U.S. Council on Competitiveness—which describes itself as a nonprofit, bipartisan group of labor, corporate and university leaders—tracks health, […]