Safety and welfare of the community is served and protected by them. The reality is that connected Interest Groups favor occupational licensing for its anticompetitive effects. The fees and restrictions instituted by occupational licensure prevent entrepreneurial innovators who often come from modest backgrounds and represent vulnerable groups from efficiently providing consumers with better goods and services. Fallsus of these laws disproportionately on minority eliminates from the National Illumination of burdensome regulations and the expense of Economic Freedom and mobility. The Johnson Center for political economy recently did a study that was published in 2018 the cause of occupational licensing in alabama. We have dan sutter with us today who is the executive director of the Johnson Center for political economy. That iconcludes want to read from it just briefly. Licensed 432,000 covering 40 and representing 21 of the states labor force. The total initial cost of occupational lic
Establish governmentbacked barriers of entry into professions and fields based on the allegation that the general safety and welfare of the community is served and protected by them. The reality is that connected Interest Groups favor occupational licensing for its anticompetitive effects. The fees and restrictions instituted by occupational licensure prevent entrepreneurial innovators who often come from modest backgrounds and represent vulnerable groups from efficiently providing consumers with better goods and services. The onus of these laws falls disproportionately on minority communities who would benefit from the elimination of burdensome regulations and the expense of Economic Freedom and mobility. The Johnson Center for political economy recently did a study that was published in 2018 called the cause of occupational cost of occupational licensing in alabama. We have dan sutter with us today who is the executive director of the Johnson Center for political economy. Concludes t
Government, the arrival of the first enslaved africans, the experiences of women, and the enslavement of native americans. Northern Virginia Community college and the office of Historic Alexandria cohosted this event. Welcome. In case you are wondering about cameras, cspan is covering this tonight for us. It will be broadcast may be a week from now. Year, we hold a lecture series in memory of a colleague who passed away a few years ago. Joseph winthrop, a dedicated and compassionate professor and social activist. And thees over there, woman who was married to him for many years is sitting here marilyn, glad to have you with us. Panell complete this tomorrow at the alexandria campus, because we are all professors at the alexandria northern Virginia Community college. Alexandra is a treat for history. And it is a treat to have these professors in a setting like the lyceum. We can rub shoulders with the ghost of the past. Yearhts topic is the 1619, a turning point not only for jamestown b
We will hear argument first this morning in case 22277, moody versus netchoice. Mr. Whitaker . Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court. Internet platforms today control the way millions of americans communicate with each other and with the world. Platforms achieve that success by marketing themselves as neutral forums for free speech. Now that they host the communications of billions of users, they sing a very different tune. They now say they are in fact editors of their users speech, rather like a newspaper. They contend they possess a broad First Amendment right to censor anything they host on their sites, even when doing so contradict their own representations to consumers. But the design of the First Amendment is to prevent the suppression of speech, not to enable it. That is why the Telephone Company and Delivery Service has no first moment right to use their services as a chokepoint to silence those they disfavor. Broadly facilitating communication in that way is conduct,
We will hear argument first this morning in case 22277, moody versus netchoice. Mr. Whitaker . Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court. Internet platforms today control the way millions of americans communicate with each other and with the world. Platforms achieve that success by marketing themselves as neutral forums for free speech. Now that they host the communications of billions of users, they sing a very different tune. They now say they are in fact editors of their users speech, rather like a newspaper. They contend they possess a broad First Amendment right to censor anything they host on their sites, even when doing so contradict their own representations to consumers. But the design of the First Amendment is to prevent the suppression of speech, not to enable it. That is why the Telephone Company and Delivery Service has no first moment right to use their services as a chokepoint to silence those they disfavor. Broadly facilitating communication in that way is conduct,