Last week I had the honor of speaking in favor of occupational licensing reform before a legislative oversight committee (you can view my presentation here)...
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2016 @ 5:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Entrepreneurship programs are spreading rapidly across America and are attracting a growing number of students. But one question keeps coming up: Is it really possible to teach entrepreneurship?
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 10:29 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Remember the old tale about a drunken man crawling around under a lamppost? Dating at least as far back as 1924, the joke starts off with a police officer approaching the drunk to ask what he's looking for. In earlier versions of the joke, it's a dollar bill. In later versions, it's a set of car...
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015 @ 3:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For the last decade I have taught entrepreneurship to literally tens of thousands of students in big classes, small seminars, and on the Internet in a massively open online course (MOOC). The sheer diversity of these students - their abilities, their backgrounds, their personal traits, and their...
Published: Thursday, August 20th, 2015 @ 3:40 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Suppose two unknown men are standing in front of us. One has the physique of LeBron James-six foot, eight inches tall, with 260 pounds of rippling muscle-while the other looks like a young Woody Allen-five foot, five inches tall, with narrow shoulders and Coke bottle-thick eyeglasses. We then...
Published: Wednesday, August 19th, 2015 @ 4:01 am
By: John William Pope Center
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East Carolina University today announced its plan to create the first School of Entrepreneurship in the East, made possible by a generous commitment of $5 million by a Raleigh area entrepreneur, J. Fielding Miller, and his wife, Kim Grice Miller.
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2015 @ 2:11 am
By: ECU News Services
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Beaufort County Community College's Small Business Center has announced the Fall 2015 schedule for five classes that serve as the core curriculum for potential and existing small business owners.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2015 @ 5:52 am
By: Chris Downey
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On Monday, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted for H.R. 2499, the Veterans Entrepreneurship Act of 2015, which waves guarantee fees for loans given to veterans by the Small Business Administration (SBA)
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2015 @ 4:57 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Today, the Civitas Institute joins the Cato Institute in asking the United States Supreme Court to clarify its role in protecting Americans from occupational licensure abuse. In a joint amicus brief, attorneys from Civitas and Cato ask the Court to grant certiorari in Vong v. Aune - a case with...
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 @ 8:14 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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After a measure introduced in last year's legislative session allowing more investors to get in at the early stages of startup companies failed to become law, competing bills have been filed in the current session encouraging entrepreneurs to seek capital through options resembling...
Published: Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 @ 11:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a draft report released this week, the working group of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors has completed its review of the 240 research centers scattered among the system campuses. It recommends further review of only 13 and closure of just three.
Published: Thursday, February 19th, 2015 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2013 North Carolina instituted sweeping tax reform and began the process of making its tax system more efficient and more consistent with liberty.
Published: Tuesday, September 16th, 2014 @ 9:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Building on positive reforms from the past few years, North Carolina's elected leaders can take more steps to help boost economic growth, improve education, and fight overregulation. The John Locke Foundation's new Agenda 2014 Policy Report offers more than 110 recommendations addressing these...
Published: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014 @ 6:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During most of its history, North Carolina was a state of widely dispersed residents. There were no truly big cities, many small towns, and fewer sparsely populated counties than, say, Virginia or Georgia had. Particularly along the state's rivers and streams, you'd find a thriving mill town or...
Published: Saturday, April 5th, 2014 @ 8:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If your goal is to foster economic growth and job creation, there's a right way and a wrong way to cut taxes on business. Fortunately, Pat McCrory and the General Assembly made the right choice.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 @ 9:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Liberal politicians, activists, and commentators have spent months prodding, baiting, and criticizing Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and the Republican-led state legislature. While occasionally goading their targets into making unwise comments, the obstructionists have failed to keep...
Published: Saturday, July 13th, 2013 @ 11:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Critics often blast entrepreneurs as people who think only about ways to make a buck. That characterization bothers Felix Livingston, professor of economics at Flagler College. During a spring visit to Campbell University, Livingston explained why he's promoting a concept called...
Published: Sunday, July 7th, 2013 @ 6:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Entrepreneurs make things happen by filling a niche in the marketplace. Edward Stringham wants to fill a niche by creating more entrepreneurs.
Published: Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 @ 10:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I hope the teenagers who gathered at N.C. Central University were attentive, not just excited, when former Def Jam Records president Kevin Liles stepped to the stage to give the keynote address at the Summer Youth Business and Entrepreneurship Academy.
Published: Friday, August 17th, 2012 @ 9:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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