Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
Regulation
Government regulations typically restrict people’s behaviors and choices– causing economic damage, especially to society’s vulnerable who can least afford to comply. Locke works to deregulate and support innovation and growth.
Research Brief
Regulation
The post-COVID economy will need extensive occupational licensing reform
In the best of times, occupational licensing was a notorious public-choice problem. It’s an extreme government regulation that ought to have been reserved for only the most extreme risks. Too…
Regulation
Scientific ignorance loves regulation, revisited
It's easy for polls to find people in support of highly restrictive safety regulations, even outright bans, on things that sound scary to them, if they don't stop to think…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The Right AOC on Point: Trusting North Carolinians to Do the Right Thing
John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke, “The Right AOC,” contrasts North Carolina’s approach to COVID-19 with the approach in North Dakota and South Carolina. Contact Amy at [email protected]. Follow her…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
How will the coronavirus affect cities and local governments?
Local governments have been the first line of government action in the fight against the coronavirus. They are also the level of government most vulnerable to the fiscal impact of…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online on tough decisions that await the N.C. General Assembly as it returns to work today. John Trump’s Daily Journal highlights a Concord fitness…
Law & Public Safety
The Enforcement of COVID-19 Emergency Orders Illustrates Why We Shouldn’t Use the Criminal Law for Regulatory Purposes
Over the course of recent weeks, Americans have been shocked by the unseemly and divisive spectacle of police officers threatening to arrest people, and in some cases actually arresting people,…
Energy
COVID-19 lockdown offers preview of Green New Deal
Editors at the Washington Examiner suggest that life under the left-wing Green New Deal would resemble the coronavirus economic shutdown. When socialist darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first floated her “Green…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
Rick Henderson reports for Carolina Journal Online on the extension of Gov. Roy Cooper’s economic shutdown for North Carolina. Amy Cooke’s Daily Journal explains why the government’s shutdown strategy exhibits…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The Right AOC on Point: Telling on Your Neighbors in the Age of ‘Social Distancing’
John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke, “The Right AOC,” discusses people who report their neighbors to authorities because of concerns about “social distancing.” Contact Amy at [email protected]. Follow her at…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
More thoughts about correctional institutions and COVID-19
As I noted in a previous research brief, COVID-19 presents many difficult challenges for North Carolina’s criminal justice system. How can we prevent the disease from running rampant in our…
Law & Public Safety
Congress considers new warnings involving China, Russia, Iran
Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon highlights proposed legislation targeting international bad actors. Congress is considering new legislation that would require warning labels on smartphone applications made in countries…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
California overregulation hurts COVID-19 response
Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon explains how an overly restrictive California economic regulation is hurting the state’s ability to cope with COVID-19. Democratic California governor Gavin Newsom on…