Brenee Goforth

North Carolina has been under a government-mandated shutdown for weeks – a shutdown that the government has justified with data that were riddled with errors and mispredictions. In his research brief this week, JLF’s Dr. Don van der Vaart explains the issues with the data, the lack of government transparency,…

Millions of people are out of work in America. Thanks to the coronavirus and the economic turmoil that followed, many North Carolinians have not only lost their jobs but also their employer-sponsored health insurance. The significant impacts of these past few months on the insurance market are the subject of…

An MIT study on the factors that contributed to the transmission of COVID-19 has gotten a lot of traction recently. Dominic Coletti, research intern at the John Locke Foundation, wrote a research brief this week examining the report and explaining what it could mean for North Carolina. Coletti writes: A…

Syndicated Columnist John Hood wrote an opinion piece in the Carolina Journal this week about Coronavirus response and business. In his piece, Hood parses out how much of the decrease in local economies is the result of public policy, rather than the Coronavirus. Hood writes: Over the first two months…

The Republican National Convention (RNC) is currently on the books to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina in August. However, recent events have brought those plans into question. On Memorial Day, President Donald Trump tweeted out a string of tweets criticizing Gov. Roy Cooper’s “shutdown mood,” which could keep…

Once again, JLF’s Becki Gray made her regular appearance on North Carolina Public Radio with WUNC Politics host Jeff Tiberii. Joining Gray and Tiberii was Rob Schofield from the N.C. Justice Center. Together, the three discussed phase two of reopening, the General Assembly’s remote session, and the chemical manufacturer Chemours’…

On Friday, May 22, The John Locke Foundation released its public policy guide for recovering from the fallout of the coronavirus outbreak. The policy guide focusses on four primary areas of concern: fiscal, health care, education, and regulatory policies. In the introduction, written by our CEO Amy O. Cooke, she…

Everyone in North Carolina is familiar with the executive orders Gov. Roy Cooper has been issuing to address the coronavirus outbreak. In the executive order he announced on Wednesday, he announced that restaurants and other businesses would be allowed to reopen at limited capacity. However, as our JLF’s Jon…