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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California’s Ongoing War on Work
Steven Greenhut
California’s unions aren’t accustomed to losing, so it was no surprise that the Service Employees International Union filed a lawsuit this month challenging the constitutionality of Proposition…
The Incredible Shrinking Liquor Bottle
C. Jarrett Dieterle
From The Daily Beast:
“The TTB basically seems to have taken a sort of middle ground,” says Jarrett Dieterle, author of Give Me Liberty and Give Me a Drink!, a guide to cocktails and…
Press release: How Broader Birth Control Access Aligns with Conservative Values and Policy Agendas
Image credit: Barbara J. Johnson
WASHINGTON (Jan. 13, 2021)— While birth control access is usually thought of as a left-of-center issue, some of the family planning programs we have today are thanks to Republican politicians….
20 History Podcasts You Should Be Listening to in 2021
C. Jarrett Dieterle
From Bello Collective:
“Why Your Craft Cocktail Should Cost $4,” The Right to Drink
The Right to Drink examines why the United States has such unusual laws when it comes to alcohol. For…
Pandemics and Prohibition: 100 Years Later
C. Jarrett Dieterle
One of the most common, if perhaps overdone, media talking points during COVID-19 has been laying out the supposed parallels to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic that occurred just over a century ago….
Licensed to Work
Anthony Lamorena
From Hawai’i Business Magazine:
Anthony Lamorena, a government affairs associate with R Street, a conservative and libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., says occupational…
, Forbes
Trump Labor Department Pushes Quick-Boiling Independent Contractor Rule that the White House Has Left on Simmer
Eli Lehrer
From Forbes:
Some who support the new rule have criticized its wording. The R Street Institute, a free-market think tank, said the form of independent work on marketplace platforms is…
Regulatory Reform and the Pandemic
Shoshana Weissmann & Courtney Joslin
From Dreier RoundTable Claremont McKenna College:
Shoshana Weissmann and Courtney Joslin at R Street:
While states are increasingly embracing the value of occupational licensing…
America’s alcohol makers just avoided a monumental disaster — but the industry is still in deep trouble
C. Jarrett Dieterle
If ever there was a time when Americans might want to turn to the bottle, it is in the middle of our current pandemic and in the aftermath of one of the most contentious presidential elections in…