Center for Opportunity Policy

Occupational licensing is a government permission slip that is required to work in specific jobs. All [...]

This week the Pelican Institute for Public Policy released a report of crime data in Louisiana, adding [...]

It’s been five years since the ten bills, colloquially known as criminal justice reform (CJR), passed the [...]

Louisiana once again finds itself atop yet another “naughty” list. Currently, Louisiana has the largest [...]

The Office of Juvenile Justice (OJJ), which is charged with the rehabilitation of 13-18 year olds [...]

Nearly one third of American workers need an occupational license to do their jobs. Since the 1950s, the [...]

In Louisiana’s 2022 Louisiana legislative session, lawmakers passed and the governor signed into law [...]

During the 2022 session, the Pelican Institute supported legislation which eventually became Act 583, a [...]

On Wednesday, after nearly three years on hiatus, the Governor’s Justice Reinvestment Implementation [...]