Click here to view and here to listen to Joseph Coletti discussing North Carolina’s latest unemployment data. RALEIGH — Uncertainty about the economic future continues to slow North Carolina’s efforts to recover jobs lost during the recent slump. That’s the assessment the John Locke Foundation’s top budget expert offers after reviewing new state unemployment data....
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Roy Cordato discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — North Carolina needs to lower its sales tax rate, end taxation of some items, and remove inefficient, unjust distortions in the current tax. That’s the prescription for true sales tax reform offered in a new John Locke...
Click here to view and here to listen to Terry Stoops discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — A newly published survey of North Carolina university faculty members raises concerns about misleading and poorly constructed questions on two end-of-course tests used in North Carolina’s public schools. The John Locke Foundation’s latest Spotlight report highlights the survey’s...
Click here to view and here to listen to Daren Bakst discussing taxpayer-funded election campaigns. RALEIGH — A state Senate committee’s vote today to expand taxpayer funding of statewide election campaigns is drawing fire from the John Locke Foundation’s legal expert. “It is shocking that the Senate Judiciary I committee would have the audacity to...
Click here to view and here to listen to Joseph Coletti discussing North Carolina’s latest unemployment data. RALEIGH — North Carolina lawmakers should resist calls for more government spending on short-term, targeted “jobs” packages as they look for ways to boost the state’s employment picture. That’s the advice the John Locke Foundation’s top budget expert...
Click here to view and here to listen to Daren Bakst discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — A bill requiring North Carolina law enforcement agencies to collect DNA samples from people arrested for certain felonies would turn a basic principle of criminal justice on its head. That’s the conclusion the John Locke Foundation’s legal expert...
Click here to view and here to listen to Daren Bakst discussing this press release. RALEIGH — North Carolina should place an immediate hold on the “matching-funds” provision of its taxpayer-financed election campaign system. That’s the assessment the John Locke Foundation’s legal expert offers after reviewing a new U.S. Supreme Court order. The high court’s...
RALEIGH — As North Carolina continues to struggle with one of the nation’s worst unemployment rates, elected leaders are pushing job-creation gimmicks and ignoring policy changes that would be more likely to produce jobs. The John Locke Foundation’s top budget expert offers that assessment in response to the state’s latest unemployment data. Click here to...
RALEIGH — It’s impossible for North Carolina’s public charter schools to pursue racial and ethnic enrollment targets, thanks to conflicting sections of state law. That’s the key finding in a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report. Click here to view and here to listen to Terry Stoops discussing this Spotlight report. “Critics who crow about...
RALEIGH — Restaurant owners, not government bureaucrats, should make all decisions about admitting pets in their restaurants. That’s the conclusion the John Locke Foundation’s top regulatory expert reaches in a new Spotlight report. Click here to view and here to listen to Daren Bakst discussing this Spotlight report. If regulators decide to limit restaurant owners’...
RALEIGH — Budget gimmicks help Gov. Bev Perdue avoid the tough decisions that would improve North Carolina state government’s finances and operations. That’s the assessment the John Locke Foundation’s top budget expert offers in a new Spotlight report. Click here to view and here to listen to Joseph Coletti discussing this Spotlight report. “Gimmicks are...
RALEIGH — North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper should rethink his decision to avoid joining a lawsuit challenging the new federal health care law. That’s the assessment from the John Locke Foundation’s legal expert, who says in a new Spotlight report that Cooper has ignored the lawsuit’s primary legal question. Click here to view and...