John Locke Update / Impact Newsletter

Eugenics, fracking, tax reform, health care, and more from JLF researchers

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A column in the News & Observer cited John Locke Foundation Director of Regulatory Studies Jon Sanders‘ recent research newsletter urging North Carolina officials not to use a technicality to block compensation for victims of the state’s eugenics program. NCPoliticalNews.com promoted Sanders’ research newsletter on the unintended negative consequences associated with an increase in the government-mandated minimum wage. A report (PDF) on hydraulic fracturing from the minority staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works cites Sanders’ research on the topic.

A Smoky Mountain News article on the impact of North Carolina’s recent tax reform package quoted Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar Roy Cordato. The Wake Forest Weekly and NCPoliticalNews.com picked up Director of Research and Education Studies Terry Stoops‘ column spelling out the facts of a recent cut in the N.C. Department of Public Instruction budget.

The N.C. Spin website, NCPoliticalNews.com, Beaufort Observer, and N.C. Senate Republicans’ daily press email all highlighted Director of Fiscal Policy Studies Sarah Curry‘s analysis of health care spending in the N.C. state budget. A Goldsboro News-Argus letter from state Rep. Jimmy Dixon cited Curry’s work rebutting myths about state education spending. (I shall attempt to describe the distorted manner in which they arrived at the $500 million cut figure. For brevity, I will paraphrase information presented by Sarah Curry, director of fiscal policy studies for the John Locke Foundation. …)

The N.C. Spin website and Senate GOP promoted Health and Human Services Policy Analyst Katherine Restrepo‘s column on the growing popularity of direct primary care. The Durham Herald-Sun cited JLF’s work on promoting changes to the state’s Medicaid program.

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