Patrick Tyrrell
Patrick Tyrrell is a research coordinator in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis (CDA), which provides state-of-the-art modeling, database products and research assistance to the public policy community.
Tyrrell, who joined Heritage in 2007, focuses his research on the stock market, the growing national debt and budget deficits, and the negative effects of Americans’ increasing dependence on government.
The CDA team maintains scores of databases to support strategic research; provides confidential reviews of legislation for members of Congress and the White House; and supplies data and analysis for news organizations.
Tyrrell holds bachelor’s degrees in economics and psychology from the University of Virginia. A native of Bloomington, Ind., he grew up in Washington, D.C., and currently resides in Alexandria, Va.
All Publications by Patrick Tyrrell
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Center for Data Analysis Report posted February 8, 2012 by William Beach, Patrick Tyrrell
The 2012 Index of Dependence on Government
Abstract: The great and calamitous fiscal trends of our time—dependence on government by an increasing portion of the American population, and soaring debt that threatens the financial integrity of the economy—worsened yet again in 2010 and 2011. The United States has long reached the…
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Backgrounder posted December 18, 2009 by William Beach, Robert A. Book, Ph.D., Karen Campbell, Ph.D., Rea Hederman, Jr., David Kreutzer, Ph.D., John Ligon, Robert Moffit, Ph.D., David Muhlhausen, Ph.D., Guinevere Nell, Kathryn Nix, Nina Owcharenko, Jason Richwine, Ph.D., James Sherk, Kisa Smith, Patrick Tyrrell, Paul Winfree
An Analysis of the Senate Democrats' Health Care Bill
Abstract: The Senate health care bill would overhaul the entire health care sector of the U.S. economy by erecting massive federal controls over private health insurance, dictating the content of insurance benefit packages and the use of medical treatments, procedures, and medical devices. It would alter…
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WebMemo posted May 21, 2009 by Patrick Tyrrell
The Results Are In: Stimulus Bill Neither Timely Nor Targeted
Before the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
of 2009 (also known as the "stimulus bill"), President Obama and
his chief economic advisor, Larry Summers, stressed that the
government's response to the economic crisis needed to be "timely,
targeted, and temporary." As predicted by a Heritage Foundation
analyst,…
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Backgrounder posted July 7, 2008 by James Sherk, Patrick Tyrrell
Davis-Bacon Flaws Hurt South Dakota's Workers
The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 requires contractors on all federal construction projects to pay their workers the prevailing wage in their locality. The law is intended to ensure that the government does not drive down construction workers' wages, but flaws in the U.S. Department of Labor's wage determination process cause…
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Backgrounder posted July 7, 2008 by James Sherk, Patrick Tyrrell
Davis-Bacon Flaws Hurt Virginia's Workers
The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 requires contractors on all federal construction projects to pay their workers the prevailing wage in their locality. The law is intended to ensure that the government does not drive down construction workers' wages, but flaws in the U.S. Department of Labor's wage determination process have…
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Backgrounder posted July 7, 2008 by James Sherk, Patrick Tyrrell
Davis-Bacon Flaws Hurt Nebraska's Workers
The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 requires contractors on all federal construction projects to pay their workers the prevailing wage in their locality. The law is intended to ensure that the government does not drive down construction workers' wages, but flaws in the U.S. Department of Labor's wage determination process cause…
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