Debate this week about compensation for victims of North Carolina’s eugenics-based forced sterilization program attracted attention to research on that topic from Daren Bakst, John Locke Foundation Director of Legal and Regulatory Studies. An Associated Press article quoting Bakst appeared in the Asheville Citizen-Times, Burlington Times-News, Charlotte Observer, Concord Independent Tribune, Fayetteville Observer, Greensboro News & Record, Hickory Daily Record, Jacksonville Daily News, Kinston Free Press, McDowell News, Morganton News Herald, Statesville Record & Landmark, Wilmington Star-News, Wilson Daily Times, and Winston-Salem Journal. Websites for television stations WCNC, WSOC, WTVD, and WNCN also featured that article. Even the Seattle Times picked up the story. A Charlotte Observer editorial also cited an interest in Bakst’s proposal to exempt forced sterilization victims from state income taxes. The N.C. News Network and WPTF Radio news quoted Bakst in a story about his compensation proposals. In other research news, Director of Fiscal Policy Studies Fergus Hodgson released a new report detailing a strategy for North Carolina to reverse a deficit in its unemployment insurance trust fund and repay a $2.6 billion debt to the federal government. Hodgson also testified this week to the N.C. House Select Committee on Public Private Partnerships. He published his first Spanish-language commentary in La Conexion.