🚨 NEW State Childcare Regulations Database🚨 The Archbridge Institute has published a new database identifying facility codes, child-to-staff ratios, and licensing requirements for childcare centers in all 50 states plus DC. 📎 archbridgeinstitute.org/state-childcar…

Check out the full report by Conor Norris, Miranda Spindt, Edward Timmons, and Will Flanders — co-published by WILL: archbridgeinstitute.org/reforming-chil…

Calling academics, business leaders, policy researchers and advocates in the Carolinas: join the Classical Liberals in the Carolinas conference in Greenville, SC, Aug. 8 & 9. Some great panels have formed. John Dalton of Wake Forest is our keynote speaker. Register now:

What a great weekend it was to talk regulatory policy - We hosted an academic roundtable alongside the Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️ Foundation to bring in scholars, experts and professionals in regulatory policy to create a conversation on the latest research and policy insights in regulation.

In a recent Cato Institute Brief, researchers Kihwan Bae and Conor Norris dig deeper into the effect of occupational licensing on the earnings gap, or the "licensing premium," between licensed to unlicensed workers. Read more here: bit.ly/4f7VmuQ

🚨 NEW: The 2025 edition of the 'State Occupational Licensing Index' presents an updated ranking of all 50 US states + DC on the burden of their occupational regulations. How many barriers to work are in your state? 🧵 📎 archbridgeinstitute.org/state-occupati… #SOLI2025

It's no surprise that professional associations lobby state legislatures, after all, those rents aren't going to seek themselves. But apparently even licensing boards are getting in the action by hiring their own lobbyists open.substack.com/pub/edwardjtim…