RALEIGH – Market forces may be moving textile and furniture employment overseas, but according to a new report from the John Locke Foundation there’s no mistaking a major growth industry in North Carolina: state and local government. Joe Coletti, a fiscal policy analyst for the Raleigh-based think tank, examined recent growth in government employment in...
RALEIGH – As the North Carolina General Assembly considers a bill to create the South’s first state commission on climate change, a leading expert on the issue will be in Raleigh Tuesday to discuss global warming – on the same day that copies of Michael Crichton’s blockbuster State of Fear will be distributed to state...
RALEIGH — As American and world leaders react to yet another deadly terrorist attack in London, one of the nation’s leading authorities on anti-terrorism programs will speak Monday in Charlotte on ways that the city and state can better prepare to prevent or respond to terrorist attacks. Retired Army Col. David Hunt, a military analyst...
RALEIGH – The mission of the General Assembly’s proposed commission on global climate change can best be accomplished by soliciting a wide variety of expert opinions on the science and economics behind the global-warming debate, according to a vice president of the John Locke Foundation. Dr. Roy Cordato, an economist and vice president for research,...
RALEIGH – A lawsuit filed Thursday by the North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law offers the prospect of scaling back state incentive policies that hinder rather than hasten economic development, according to the head of the John Locke Foundation. John Hood, chairman and president of the Raleigh-based think tank, said that targeted tax credits and...
RALEIGH — A bill in the North Carolina House would raise the state-imposed minimum wage to $8.50 an hour, but a new analysis from the John Locke Foundation suggests that low-income workers will be harmed rather than helped by the measure. Dr. Roy Cordato, vice president and resident scholar at the Raleigh-based think tank, wrote...
RALEIGH – Entrepreneurs, investors, and the vast majority of business leaders in North Carolina have little to fear from proposed lobbying reforms, according to a new report from the John Locke Foundation that examined the ways that special-interest lobbying affects the business climate. John Hood, president of the Raleigh-based think tank, wrote that a Senate...
RALEIGH — As the North Carolina Senate prepared to release elements of a spending plan for 2005-07, the John Locke Foundation offered its own alternative Monday that avoids any new or extended tax increases – and, indeed, uses more than $1 billion in budget savings to reduce income taxes for state households and businesses. JLF’s...
RALEIGH — With the American Lung Association’s latest national rankings on air quality due out today, John Locke Foundation analysts urge caution in interpreting the association’s “biased” data. “There is good news about air quality in North Carolina, yet little of it is to be found in the latest State of the Air report from...
RALEIGH — The federal US highway program passed in 1998 has resulted in a substantial improvement in overall road conditions but at considerable cost, according to a report released today by the John Locke Foundation that also shows how North Carolina’s highway conditions have changed in recent years and compare with those of other states....
RALEIGH — Just in time for its 15th anniversary celebration Friday, the John Locke Foundation has begun a major expansion of its flagship publication, Carolina Journal — including new local editions in Greensboro, Charlotte, and Asheville and a new officer to run its Carolina Journal division. The Raleigh-based think tank recently hired Jon Ham to...
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s largest public policy think tank has launched a major project to expand its activities, influence, and support in the state’s largest metropolitan area: Charlotte. Residents of Mecklenburg County and neighboring communities are the main audience for several new initiatives from the John Locke Foundation, which on Friday will celebrate the 15th...