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My name is R.J. Lehmann and I am director of finance, insurance and trade policy at the R Street Institute. R Street is a think tank devoted to pragmatic free-market solutions to public policy…
Progressive Rhetoric, Regressive Policies
Steven Greenhut
Over the last nine years, California has boosted its spending on public schools and community colleges by 80 percent, and the results are pretty conclusive. California’s low-income students…
Raising the Age of Adult Criminal Responsibility a Matter of Dollars and (Common) Sense
Marc Hyden
The budget crunch is on, and bean counters are hard at work trying to figure out a way to balance the state’s budget, keep Georgia’s coveted AAA bond rating, and do so without disrupting…
Push mowers and rakes due for a comeback?
Steven Greenhut
From One News Now:
“They’re always looking to kind of ban things,” Steven Greenhut says of the Air Resources Board. “They’re looking to phase these things out and aren’t thinking about the…
Unmasking the Latest Leftist Conspiracy: Housing
Steven Greenhut
Nothing gets progressives worked up more than a good conspiracy theory involving corporate greed and evildoing, but the latest one spreading through the left-of-center blogosphere is so patently…
WASHINGTON (Jan. 6, 2020) – Nearly 30 percent of Americans must have an occupational license in order to work. Each specific license has a unique set of requirements, which makes it more difficult…
If they are, in fact, married to a servicemember who has been transferred and have a current occupational license in good standing, then Georgia ought not prevent them from working. Rather, the state…
BACKGROUND
Under current Georgia law, minors cannot vote, buy a lottery ticket or even open a checking account. Indeed, 17-year-olds are treated as children in almost every way—except in the…
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One Year After It Passed, California’s Police Accountability Law Is Working
Steven Greenhut
There’s precious little bipartisan agreement on anything these days, but there’s one area where liberals and conservatives ought to be in lockstep : Government officials—whether they work for the…
Ending single-family zoning expands freedom and choice
Steven Greenhut
A bedrock principle of conservatism is that individuals should be allowed to live as they please free from the overly meddlesome dictates of regulators. Another conservative mainstay is a belief in…