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• By: Ryan Young
• 04/28/2011

Land Use and Transportation Policy Analyst Marc Scribner looks at China's experience with high-speed rail, and finds that it may not be a very good…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/28/2011

Over the last five years, the DC Metro has spent $2.4 million on back pay... for work that was never performed.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/28/2011

In today's Investor's Business Daily, Wayne Crews and I argue that reformers shouldn't forget about regulation:…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 04/27/2011

  Spending reform is all the rage in Washington, with both parties offering proposals to rein in the deficit. President Obama has proposed a mix…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/25/2011

Wayne Crews and I have a piece in today's Sacramento Bee summarizing the main findings of Wayne's "Ten Thousand Commandments" study.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 04/25/2011

Appeared: The Sacramento Bee, …

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/21/2011

Carrie Lukas, Managing Director of the Independent Women's Forum, argues that the pay gap between men and women isn't due to discrimination.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/19/2011

Workforce Central Florida, a government agency, is spending $73,000 to give away 6,000 capes and some cardboard cutouts.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/19/2011

Air traffic control is simply too important an issue to leave to the free market. It is time to put the government in charge of…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/18/2011

The 2011 edition of Wayne Crews’ “Ten Thousand Commandments” was released today. The annual study gives a big-picture view of the regulatory state. You can…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/13/2011

Sometimes people wonder why I favor abolishing the TSA outright. Here's one reason.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/05/2011

Russ Brown, a vice president at the Labor Relations Institute and a CEI Adjunct Analyst, talks about recent changes made to the Railway Labor Act…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/29/2011

One wonders just how many regulations this rogue basketball hoop violated in the 60 years it spent terrorizing an unsuspecting Delaware neighborhood.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/21/2011

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/17/2011

CEI Senior Fellow Greg Conko discusses his recent trip to Kenya where he met with members of Parliament and other officials about the best way…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/17/2011

Text messages cost 20 cents to send, even though they use a fraction of a penny of bandwidth. What gives? Antitrust authorities want to know.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/17/2011

  Text messages are expensive. Most carriers charge customers 20 cents for every text they send. But the tiny messages use up only a fraction…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/15/2011

Nevada's legislature is considering restricting or banning pesticides, potpourri, air fresheners, candles, and pretty much anything with a scent in public places.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/15/2011

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/14/2011

Portland, Oregon is banning city government employees from wearing perfume or cologne at work.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/11/2011

Tragedy struck Japan this morning. It will be some time before we know just how many lives the tsunami took, and how much damage was…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/11/2011

  There is nothing good about a natural disaster. The tsunami that hit Japan today is an unmitigated tragedy. Still, there is a certain optimism…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/10/2011

Andy Greenberg reports that the TSA would like to expand its scanning operations to pedestrians and train passengers.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/08/2011

This year’s budget battle is especially heated. Democrats want the federal budget to be $3.7 trillion. Republicans want it to be $3.6 trillion. Both sides…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/07/2011

Politicians love small businesses. Almost every campaign stump speech gushes about how important they are for the economy. Never afraid to put our money where…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/24/2011

Vice President for Strategy Iain Murray discusses the labor reforms that have led a thousands-strong protest in Madison, Wisconsin.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/18/2011

Protests in Wisconsin over public sector compensation cuts have been the big story this week. Over at the Daily Caller, I explain why some of…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/18/2011

My colleague Alex Nowrasteh has an op-ed in Investor's Business Daily where he makes the case for liberalizing the H1-B visa for skilled immigrants.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/18/2011

  Turns out there is such a thing as bad publicity. School districts across Wisconsin have closed because of the number of teachers calling in…

Regulatory Reform