ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Websites > Regulation and Deregulation

Wireless phones and driving safety
Source: Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association
Country: United States

Around the country, ordinances are being passed to prohibit cell phone use in cars, in spite of the tremendous advantages they offer and very little hard data on their supposed dangers. This list of resources on how to drive safely and reminding us that "it is illegal to drive distractedly" serve as a nice counterbalance.

Right to Work States, 1999
Source: National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Country: United States

An interactive U.S. map to find out about your state's laws on compulsory unionism.

Right to work caselaw
Source: National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Country: United States

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation's online directory of right to work and labor caselaw.

Radio revolution
Source: Reason
Country: United States

Reason offers a collection of information relevant to the FCC's decision to open-up radio broadcasting to non-commercial, low-power stations. (1/20/00)

SBSC news & features
Source: Small Business Survival Committee
Country: United States
E-mail: cwysocki@sbsc.org

Press releases, opinion pieces, news briefs and more in-depth studies of small-business issues can all be found here. Also: SBSC TV (not to be confused with the '80s sketch-comedy show with an eerily similar name). A good resource for information on the topic.

SBSC legislative issues
Source: Small Business Survival Committee
Country: United States
E-mail: cwysocki@sbsc.org

Here you'll find the Small Business Survival Committee's ratings of members of Congress on small-business isues, the SBSC's legislative agenda and congressional testimony.

SBSC issues
Source: Small Business Survival Committee
Country: United States
E-mail: cwysocki@sbsc.org

This page offers resources galore exploring how myriad government policies (taxes, health care, technology, regulations, trade, etc.) are affecting small businesses and recommended policy alternatives.

RegRadar
Source: The Mercatus Center
Country: United States
E-mail: kbailey3@gmu.edu

Web site dedicated to monitoring federal regulatory activity, "as a radar system that tracks regulations from their initial sighting as Unconfirmed Federal Operations (UFOs) to their Final Approach (rules about to be issued in final form)". Organized by categories and searchable. Good resource!

Institute for Justice clinic on entrepreneurship Web site
Source: Institute for Justice Clinic
City: Chicago, State: IL, Country: United States
E-mail: clinic@ij.org

The IJ Clinic is a joint project of IJ and the University of Chicago Law School. Its mission is to expand economic liberty in economically disadvantaged inner cities and communities through a model public interest clinical program.

Regulation.org
Source: The Heritage Foundation
Country: United States
E-mail: christopher.summers@heritage.org

"A comprehensive source of regulatory studies, statistics, and information."

Minimum Wage: Wishing for a raise
Source: Free-Market.Net
Author: J.D. Tuccille
Country: United States

Contrary to the best of intentions, wishing really, really hard for people to make more money can’t make it happen. Unskilled jobs don't pay poorly because bosses are mean people; they pay poorly because that's what they’re worth. (9/27/00)

Business regulation: living with living wage laws
Source: Free-Market.Net
Country: United States

As with the minimum wage, living wage laws offer us the temptation of legislating ourselves into prosperity. Only economic reality stands in the way. (10/25/00)

Air Traffic Control Reform Resource Center
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Country: United States

"Spearheaded by RPPI Director of Transportation Studies Robert Poole, this site explores [Air Traffic Control] corporatization and privatization in more depth with links to numerous resources on the subject."

CAFE cafe
Source: CEI
Country: United States

Take a seat at CEI's CAFE cafe and prepare to be treated to lots of tasty morsels documenting the regulatory outrages and unintended consequences of this regulatory morass.

Corporate governance resources
Source: The Cato Institute
Country: United States

Summary of Cato-sponsored articles on government intervention into corporate decision-making. Most entries have links to the article.

Uncorking freedom: challenging direct shipment of wine regulations
Source: Institute for Justice
Country: United States

Detailed page, with many informative links, on the issue of regulation of wine sales between U.S. states. Terrific background to current IJ litigation.

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