Liberty
Jobs Data Error Unlikely to Be Based on Politics
Dominic Pino of National Review Online doubts that a recent revision of federal jobs data has anything to do with politics. The Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its annual revision…
Data analysis
Research Brief
Regulation
Princeton Gerrymandering Project Grades Are Arbitrary and Favor Democrats
The Princeton Gerrymandering Project purports to measure gerrymandering objectively. The PGP's measure of gerrymandering is not based on any objective standard but the analysts' opinion and preferences, however. In nearly…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Welcome milestone: NC recoveries blow past 200,000 as active cases fall
All considered, 99.75% of people in NC pose no threat to anyone of passing along a virus most have never had or the rest have recovered from.
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The Stats-Scare Before Christmas?
Immediately, the state's case counts and tests returning positive were suddenly right back to where Cooper's clear preference for keeping personal and business restrictions against people needed them to be.
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Cooper and media’s political use of testing and cases, plus an update on counties
Cooper's August 5 order overtly paved the way for higher case numbers irrespective of testing to be weaponized against North Carolinians to "reinstate" restrictions. And now the Cooper administration is…
Research Brief
Health Care
The Fog of COVID-19 Data: North Carolina is “holding at a steady pace”
There has been a lot of chatter about spikes in COVID-19 infections. The North Carolina media is maintaining a somewhat constant reporting of the numbers with very little discussion of…
Research Brief
Liberty
The Fog of COVID-19 Data: An Introduction
For weeks now, Americans have lived in a suspended state as they grapple with the response to COVID-19, a disease caused by a “novel” coronavirus that appears to have originated…
Health Care
Fixing what’s wrong with inaccurate COVID-19 models
Jon McCloskey writes for the Federalist about COVID-19 models that have been far from accurate. There’s been a lot of armchair analysis about various models being used to predict outcomes…
Research Brief
Education
Shortcomings of the WestEd report: Resources
In 2017, the plaintiffs and defendants in Leandro v. State of North Carolina agreed to allow an independent consultant to advise Judge David Lee on how to proceed in the…
Education
Martin Center column examines state investments in higher education
Andrew Gillen writes for the Martin Center about the argument that states have in recent years been “disinvesting” in higher education. “Two days. Two reports citing the same data. Two…
Regulation
But was it ‘gouging’? Part 2: gasoline prices
Two-thirds of stations reported to the Attorney General for alleged gasoline "price gouging" had raised their prices by a quarter or less. One-fourth, by a dime or less.
Health Care
Big Data In Health Care
The North Carolina General Assembly has enacted a Medicaid Reform that is set to phase in by 2022. The proposal looks to better manage Medicaid costs and improve patient health…