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As Constitution Day approached, I started thumbing through Seth Lipsky’s The Citizen’s Constitution, one of my favorites guides to the nation’s governing document. The 2009 book adds valuable context to constitutional provisions. It also tells great stories. Lipsky reminds us that that the Constitution has played an important role…

Of course we do!  And it comes from the public school reports. We’ve simply complied it for you and will let the facts/data speak for themselves: According to the 2020 North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey: 38% of teachers say that their students do not follow the rules of…

Across America, millions of people have lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 outbreak. More than just their incomes, many of these people lost their employer sponsored health insurance (ESI). This week, JLF’s Jordan Roberts explained how North Carolina could improve the health insurance market by making a change. Roberts…

The benefits of Medicaid transformation have focused on the issue from the cost/government perspective.  What are the tangible net benefits to actual current Medicaid recipients? JLF’s Health Care policy analyst, Jordan Roberts answers: Managed care ideally will create a new insurance product for the Medicaid enrollees. The enrollees will now…

John Staddon uses a Martin Center column to ponder the role of grades. The reality of human difference—difference in every aspect from height, weight, and beauty to intelligence and industriousness—has become a huge problem for America. Many people simply can’t accept it. A big problem with grades is that…

1. Cooper still hates vouchers.                 2. Cooper will not rule out ordering all public schools to adopt a full-time remote learning plan (Plan C).               3. Cooper may call on law…

Today is the last day to comment on a proposed rule from the Division of Employment Security that is based loosely on state and federal laws, an expired Executive Order (121), and an Executive Order (118) whose validity is being challenged in court. In submitting comments on the rule, I…

Here’s the question: What is the appropriate balance of federal and state regulatory requirements on business and the economy? Thank you Jon Sanders for a great answer: Burdensome regulations have a proven effect of hindering economic growth, and that’s not just bad for businesses, it’s bad for job-seekers and also…