Washington’s state and local governments do more to impinge on its citizens’ economic choices than do a vast majority of the states in the nation. That is the conclusion of a recently released study that analyzed economic freedom across the fifty states.

The study, “Economic Freedom in America’s Fifty States: A 1999 Analysis,” was conducted by John Byars, Robert McCormick, and Bruce Yandle, three Clemson University economists working with the State Policy Network, of which the Washington Institute is a member.

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