Brenee Goforth

This week, the State Policy Network, an organization that brings together free-market think tanks across the country, published a piece by the John Locke Foundation’s Joe Coletti. The piece focusses on what local governments can do to face the challenges coming out of the coronavirus outbreak. Coletti writes: Local governments…

The outbreak of Coronavirus has reignited calls for Medicaid expansion. Proponents claim that during this public health crisis, it is necessary to expand Medicaid to cover uninsured persons who may catch the virus. However, as JLF’s Jordan Roberts explains in his recent research brief, expanding Medicaid is not necessary for…

JLF’s Becki Gray continues with her regular appearances on North Carolina Public Radio WUNC with host Jeff Tiberii. In her latest appearance, Becki joined Rob Schofield from the N.C. Justice Center to discuss the extension of the stay-at-home order, the cancellation of in-person classes for the rest of the academic…

North Carolina continues under a statewide shutdown order. On Thursday, April 23, Gov. Roy Cooper presented a general plan to reopen the economy during a news conference. For now, the status quo shutdown is in place. Carolina Journal’s Rick Henderson writes: The governor extended his stay-at-home order, imposed March 27 to…

On Monday, April 13, Erik Hooks, secretary of the N.C. Department of Public Safety, announced North Carolina’s prisons would begin releasing select inmates in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19. In a research brief this week, JLF’s Jon Guze argues some of those releases may not have…

On Wednesday, April 23, JLF’s Mitch Kokai went on to the “Lars Larson Show” to discuss the recent letter the John Locke Foundation, along with more than two dozen additional think tanks, sent to Congress arguing for loosened regulations on federal aid to the states included in the CARES…

On April 13, The John Locke Foundation, in collaboration with the Platte Institute and 24 other state-based think tanks, sent a letter to Congress calling for more flexibility under the CARES Act. On Wednesday, April 22, Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times wrote about it for the paper. Dinan…

This week, the John Locke Foundation’s Jordan Roberts teamed up with Dr. Nicol Turner Lee of the Brookings Institution to release a research brief on digital tracking of the Coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended an increase in contact tracing. Contact tracing is the…