As America handles COVID-19, we hope to provide some valuable policy insights with regard to managing the virus. Our public health experts, regulatory experts, and other scholars will provide policy ideas and commentary on the policy implications of Coronavirus.
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Chairman and members of the committee,
My name is Marc Hyden, and I am the director of state government affairs for the R Street Institute, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy…
For New Year, let’s rebuild a ‘leave us alone’ coalition
Steven Greenhut
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong,” wrote the late journalist and professional cynic H.L. Mencken. In our modern world, the “answers” to our myriad and…
A Look Ahead to the 2021 Legislative Session
Marc Hyden
2020 bore witness to the one of the longest legislative sessions in Georgia’s history. Ordinarily, the General Assembly convenes in early January and adjourns in the early spring, but the COVID-19…
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….
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Video: Smaller stimulus checks could further stall Florida’s already slow economic recovery, experts say
Jonathan Bydlak
From WFTV9:
“We have this fundamental problem that keeps shocking the economy over and over again,” Jonathan Bydlak of the R Street Institute says. “In this case, it’s not being able…
America’s Other Pandemic: Hypocrisy
Marc Hyden
International health experts applauded President-elect Joe Biden’s recent election and claimed that it would usher in a new era of global cooperation and science-backed decisions. This could very…
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…
How to protect taxpayers’ investments in COVID-19 vaccines
Charles Duan
With distribution of the first COVID-19 vaccine under way, millions of Americans familiar with Big Pharma price gouging wonder if they will be priced out of access.
Although touted as…
How COVID-19 Exposes America’s Addiction to Incarceration
Arthur Rizer
A new COVID-19 surge has hit the United States and once again, the 2.1 million Americans held in prisons and jails are at imminent risk of contracting and dying of the virus.
Though new vaccines…