R Street’s Competition Policy program addresses government barriers that hurt businesses and people. Generally, we support market-oriented policy solutions that enhance free enterprise, consumer choice and public well-being. To this end, our team focuses primarily on occupational licensing, alcohol policy, shipping and postal policy, health care disintermediation and regulatory reform.
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Hurricane Ian, a massive and powerful Category 4 storm, made landfall on the gulf coast of Florida on Wednesday. With unprecedented storm surge of 12 to 18 feet and winds around 150 miles per hour,…
Dear Chairman Durbin, Ranking Member Grassley, Senator Klobuchar, and Senator Lee,
We write today to express our ongoing concerns with the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act (JCPA), an…
Good morning, it’s Tuesday, six weeks from Election Day 2022 — the midterms that will determine which of America’s two hyper-partisan (and often dysfunctional) major political parties will…
Colorado is known for many things: Beautiful mountain vistas, epic skiing, and, in recent years, a fairly freewheeling attitude toward weed. According to industry observers, the state consistently…
The latest headlines about the American workplace have focused on “quiet quitting.” But this is more than catchy clickbait, it’s a real, ongoing issue for employers and employees.
Different…
Around this time last year, we published our comprehensive tracker to “capture” just how large the COVID-19 alcohol reform wave really was. We tracked every to-go or delivery alcohol reform that…
From Orange County Register:
SACRAMENTO – One of the mainstays of California’s state government is the obvious disconnect between its leaders’ highfalutin rhetoric – and the real-world…
From Congressman Mike Garcia:
Today, Representative Mike Garcia (CA-25) introduced H.R. 8755, The Restoring Workers’ Rights Act of 2022, to the U.S. House of Representatives. The Restoring…
SACRAMENTO, Calif — Only three years ago, California’s Democratic legislators stumbled upon an amazing “easy button” idea for boosting the wages and benefits of ride-share drivers and other…
From NY Sun:
A policy fellow at the R Street Institute, Shoshana Weissman is an advocate of licensing reform as one means of increasing the available pool of prospective teachers. Ms. Weissman…
