By Jeremy Horpedahl, ACRE Director and UCA Associate Professor of Economics The Arkansas General Assembly has informally adjourned, meaning that the time to pass new bills is over. They will reconvene in May to formally wrap up the session, but the major action is now concluded. Prior to the session, ACRE put together a Top […]
Legislative Session Wrap-Up: ACRE’s Top 10 Revisited
Posted in: Barriers to Work, Regulation, Spending, Taxation, Transparency on April 14, 2023
Occupational Licensing-related Bills will Benefit Arkansans
by Zachary Burt, ACRE Policy Analyst The 2023 Legislative Session has seen a flurry of occupational licensing-related bills over the past two months. Many of these bills make small tweaks to licensing rules or board compositions, but several bills with a potentially large impact have either already been passed or stand a high chance of […]
Posted in: Barriers to Work, Regulation on March 10, 2023
ACRE’s Mid-Session Legislative Update
By Dr. Jeremy Horpedahl, ACRE Director and UCA Associate Professor of Economics The Arkansas General Assembly has now completed 7 weeks of its 2023 Regular Session. While there is still a lot more work to be done this year, we’ve already seen some major developments, and at ACRE we are closely watching several pieces of […]
Posted in: Barriers to Work, Education, Spending, Taxation, Transparency on February 24, 2023
Where Does Arkansas Stand on Universal Licensing Recognition and How Can it Improve?
by ACRE Policy Analyst Zachary Burt If you’re a license-holding professional, it may be harder than you’d expect to move your out-of-state license to Arkansas. Licensed workers from other states often have to go through the same licensing process all over again when relocating to Arkansas. These are unnecessary barriers that could convince you to […]
Posted in: Barriers to Work on February 10, 2023 Tagged: arkansas legislature, occupational licensing
ACRE’s Top 10 Policy Goals for the 2023 Arkansas Legislative Session
By Jeremy Horpedahl, ACRE Director The Arkansas General Assembly convenes for the 2023 general session on January 9, 2023. Over the weeks and months that follow, the Legislature will consider bills on a wide variety of issues affecting individuals and businesses in Arkansas. Researchers at ACRE have been hard at work since the last legislative […]
Posted in: Barriers to Work, Regulation, Targeted Incentives, Taxation, Transparency on January 6, 2023
ACRE Student Fellow Presented with Research Award at SOBIE Conference
On Apr 14, 2022, ACRE student fellow Caleb Vines presented his paper “Do Barriers to Work for Justice-Impacted People Incentivize Criminal Behavior?”, co-authored by ACRE policy analyst Zachary Burt and ACRE affiliated scholar Dr. Thomas Snyder, at the Society for Business, Industry, and Economics (SOBIE) conference in Sandestin, Florida. The paper explores the phenomenon of “hidden […]
Posted in: Barriers to Work, Regulation on May 5, 2022