John Locke Update / Impact Newsletter

Researchers tackle subsidies, light rail, property tax, and more

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The National Legal and Policy Center highlighted Jon Sanders’ concerns about subsidies for the renewable energy industry. NCPoliticaNews.com promoted Sanders’ research newsletter about the problems associated with public light rail projects.

NCPoliticalNews.com also highlighted John Locke Foundation Director of Fiscal Policy Studies Sarah Curry‘s newsletter on property taxes in North Carolina, a press release linked to Curry’s report on state spending growth, and Terry Stoops’ newsletter on state-funded public school classroom teachers.

The New Bern Sun Journal cited Katherine Restrepo’s work on a recent report detailing flaws in Community Care of North Carolina, which works with most North Carolina Medicaid patients. ([I]n an October report JLF analysts laid the blame of higher costs and lower quality care in state Medicaid administration at the feet of CCNC. “Community Care of North Carolina has proven to be a flawed model that has failed to achieve its goals,” Johnathan Ingram and Katherine Restrepo wrote in their conclusion. “Medicaid patients and taxpayers in North Carolina are caught in a perfect storm of unsustainable cost increases and deteriorating patient health outcomes, while policymakers lack honest and accurate information needed to effectively develop the state’s Medicaid budget. The program is in urgent need of reform.”)

N.C. Senate Republicans’ daily press email promoted a press release on Curry’s recent report about North Carolina state government spending growth. The Senate GOP also highlighted Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar Roy Cordato‘s column on a questionable economic impact study from the nuclear energy industry.

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