Here are several Raleigh establishments' Instagram notifications before and after the governor's shutdown order. Their communications to patrons and friends offer a snapshot of an extraordinary time. They offer a picture of the very difficult choices being faced by restaurant owners everywhere.
As of this morning, per Carrington's article in CJ, the Division of Employment Security had received 195,661 unemployment insurance claims from since March 16.
Bob Luddy, one of North Carolina's leading lights and a longtime friend of the John Locke Foundation, has a great piece in The American Spectator today. Entitled "Government Is No Match for the Coronavirus," Luddy's article makes it plain to see where our answers to this coronavirus are going to flow from: "ultimately it is the private sector that will provide the solutions."
The report makes it crystal clear that occupational licensing is an extreme regulation for only the most extreme risks. It's for protecting public safety.
As made clear in the legislative report, licensing is reserved only for those occupations posing the highest perceived risk to public health, safety, and welfare. If that sounds a little familiar, that's because the John Locke Foundation has long pointed to several less restrictive policy alternatives to licensing
The bill would force a massive wealth transfer from honest, hard-working families to unions. Unions are big campaign donors, giving nearly exclusively (over 90 percent) to Democrats.
