Press Releases: 2016

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s flat-rate income tax promotes economic growth while ensuring that taxpayers with higher incomes pay progressively higher tax rates. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report…

RALEIGH — An event center that could cost up to $51 million threatens to generate far more costs than benefits for Rocky Mount. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight…

RALEIGH — A new Direct Primary Care option helped Union County government save more than $1.28 million on health care claims in its first year, without sacrificing quality of care…

RALEIGH — Overregulation of alcoholic beverages in North Carolina stifles entrepreneurs hoping to expand a growing industry across the state. That’s one of the key findings of a new John…

RALEIGH — North Carolina has outperformed regional and national averages in most standard measures of economic growth, including job creation, gross domestic product, and personal income, since conservatives took control…

RALEIGH — Wake County taxpayers could be saddled with a multibillion-dollar bill for an expanded transit system that fails to meet most people’s needs. That’s if Wake voters approve a…

RALEIGH — Raising the government-mandated minimum wage to $15 per hour could cost North Carolina 334,000 jobs. The least-skilled and most vulnerable workers would feel the largest impact, according to…

RALEIGH — RALEIGH — North Carolina can set the stage for economic prosperity by pursuing policies that promote and enhance individual liberty. That’s the driving theme behind more than 85…

RALEIGH — Free trade has been hammered on the presidential campaign trail this year, but the John Locke Foundation will tout free trade’s benefits on Friday, July 29. That’s the…

RALEIGH — Census data show that new and converted bicycle lanes represent a “poor use” of limited state and local N.C. transportation dollars. That’s a key finding from a new…