But first, the state has to stop its UI debt from deepening
North Carolina’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) administrators have vastly outspent revenues and generated a debt of $2.6 billion with the federal government—the third-highest in the nation, on a per-capita basis. This Spotlight report proposes five ways for legislators to address this rapidly growing problem.
First, Stop the Bleeding: Getting North Carolina Out of Its Unemployment Insurance Crisis
Why the state should compensate her living victims
From 1929 to at least the 1970s, North Carolina was involved in eugenics and forcibly sterilized individuals from across the state. This dark chapter in the state’s history should not be forgotten. A new report from the John Locke Foundation makes the case as to why the estimated 2,944 living victims should be compensated for the horrible wrong that was done to them in the name of the greater good.
North Carolina's Forced-Sterilization Program: A Case for Compensating the Living Victims
Compensating NC’s Eugenics Victims: Five Ways North Carolina Can Help Right the Wrong
What activities do counties privatize?
County governments all over North Carolina are saving money by privatizing services. In an effort to assist in the exchange of information about these activities, the John Locke Foundation conducted a survey of all 100 counties asking county managers to tell us about governmental activities that they currently supply privately. We also asked them if they had problems in the past with a privatized activity that had caused them to return the activity to government provision.
Why it should be repealed, not just reformed
New research from the John Locke Foundation shows that North Carolina's corporate income tax violates all basic principles of sound economic policy and open government. It not only imposes a second and even a third layer taxation on many people’s incomes, but it is hidden, dishonest, and inconsistent with informed decision making in a free and democratic society.
Actual efficiency is harmed by solely focusing on one input
Energy efficiency programs focus on the relationship between one input into the production process, energy, relative to the output generated by that process. As a new JLF Spotlight explains, this simplistic view makes no consideration for the strong possibility that other inputs -- labor, plastic, steal, copper, glass, etc. -- might actually increase. Economic efficiency, on the other hand, relates total costs to the value of the output that those costs generate.
Energy Efficiency, Economic Efficiency, and the Pretense of Knowledge
Marlynn Burns is the National Committeewoman, RNHA, Southern States and co-chairs with RNHA Florida chairman Marc Garces the RNHA National Committee for State Chapter Development. She has served as the chairman of the NC 12th U.S. Congressional District Republican Party since 2007, and is a founding partner, Software Development Team Lead, and Senior Strategist for 360RGroup. She lives in Cabarrus County with her very patient husband, Rob Burns. They have three daughters and a son-in-law, and two grandchildren.
Victory Guzman is the founding chairman of the RNHA, North Carolina chapter. He has been involved in developing the Hispanic business community in the Charlotte, NC region and nationally through a variety of sustaining efforts such as a founding member and chairman of the Latin American Chamber of Commerce, as a member of the Charlotte Area Realtors Association's Independent Business Owner's Council and of the Diversity Council, past chairman of the Latin American Festival, the Mecklenburg County Minority Affairs Council, as a member of the Board of Directors for Junior Achievement the American Diabetes Association. Victor is the CEO of the Guzman Group, and has controlling business interests in two additional ventures. Victor received his B.A. in Business Administration from National Academy in San Diego, CA. He retired from the U.S. Navy after 22 years of active duty and eight years of reserve fleet duty. Victor and his wife Evelyn, a practicing nurse, live in Charlotte, NC. They have a daughter and a son.
Professor Baker will discuss the trend in federal law towards criminalizing routine violations of the law and the problems that overcriminalization of the U.S. Code creates.
Baker is the Dale E. Bennett Professor of Law at Louisiana State University Law Center where he has taught constitutional law since 1975. He also teaches a number of short-courses on separation of powers with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and serves as a visiting professor of law at Georgetown University.
Baker previously worked as an assistant district attorney in New Orleans and has been a consultant to the U.S Department of Justice, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Separation of Powers, the White House Office of Planning, USIA and USAID. In 2006, he was a Fulbright Scholar in the Philippines.
Baker has presented cases in federal court, including oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court. He served on the American Bar Association Task Force that issued the report, The Federalization of Crime. His writings include The Intelligence Edge, Hall's Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, An Introduction to the Law of the United States, as well as articles both on the over-federalization of criminal law and the "war on terrorism."
John Locke Foundation analysts and staff have traveled to every corner of North Carolina. We’ve listened to your greatest hopes and worst fears for our state, and we’ve heard a consistent message: You want JLF to be a more prominent resource in your community.
JLF's regional clubs will host meetings for like-minded conservatives, on your home turf. We'll bring you events with well known thinkers and writers, give you reports on our activities and new research, update you on issues that impact your neighborhood and wallet, and learn more about the threats to liberty you face in your city and country.
We have established 7 regional clubs covering every part of North Carolina.
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Jan 26, 2012
If the courts uphold a law preventing payroll deductions of teacher union dues, the North Carolina Association of Educators could become nothing more than another interest group.
Jan 19, 2012
Generous unemployment benefits have led to a UI deficit that will take years to repay. Tightening our UI belts will reduce government debt and improve the state's labor market.
Jan 13, 2012
College admissions offices increasingly monitor applicants' social media activity before making decisions about accepting them.
Jan 16, 2012
In a Sunday piece, <i>The Charlotte Observer</i> employs all the steps used by the mainstream media to mislead readers.
Jan 03, 2012
When it comes to quoting blog sites in <i>The News & Observer</i>, the liberal Huffington Post seems to be a favorite.
Oct 19, 2011
The Washington Post is at a loss to explain all the jokes about President Obama's reliance on a teleprompter.
