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The case against Google fails by any reasonable standard

Dec 5, 2024 | reason.org | Kyle Abbott

The Department of Justice targeted Google’s web advertising business in its latest anti-big tech litigation. The Justice Department alleges Google used a monopoly in online advertising to capture profits from website publishers and advertisers by coercing consumers and acquiring or eliminating any meaningful competition. However, the Department of Justice (DOJ) failed to demonstrate any specific harm to consumers at September’s trial and November’s closing arguments.
Virginia’s K-12 funding system needs an overhaul, not tweaks

Oct 25, 2024 | reason.org | Christian Barnard |Kyle Abbott

The last five years have brought major challenges to the K-12 educational landscape in Virginia—the COVID-19 pandemic, school closures, a rise in chronic absenteeism, and more. Public education has been changing at a rapid pace. And yet, Virginia continues to fund its public schools using its outdated Standards of Quality (SOQ) formula that was developed in the 1970s. This system is non-transparent, inflexible, and unfair.
Economists receive 2024 Nobel for work on institutions and economic prosperity

Oct 18, 2024 | reason.org | Kyle Abbott |Max Gulker

Economists have long been fascinated by questions of what institutions, from government laws to societal customs, are most conducive to prosperity. However, to many, it was unclear how the boom in empirical data-driven research enabled by computing technology would address these questions. Ideas about history, individual freedom, and colonial legacy—of great importance when studying institutions—can be hard to quantify and analyze with an economist’s modern toolkit.
Colorado's attempt to regulate AI harms innovation, won't protect consumers

Jul 5, 2024 | reason.org | Kyle Abbott

A newly signed bill in Colorado that regulates artificial intelligence use imposes a series of onerous rules on so-called high-risk AI systems. It’s one of the most sweeping AI regulatory bills passed by a state legislature. Unfortunately for Coloradans, it will likely deter investment in AI in their state, reduce employment around AI, and reduce deployment of AI systems in Colorado, all without addressing or solving any issues with AI applications. On May 17, Colorado Gov.
SCOTUS ruling jawboning unconstitutional would bolster free speech

May 9, 2024 | reason.org | Kyle Abbott

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard arguments regarding the federal government’s practice of jawboning—the practice of using influence or the threat of action to coerce companies and organizations to engage in certain behaviors like censorship, often against their wishes.
Justice Department's antitrust case ignores much of the competition Google faces - Reason Foundation

Jan 16, 2024 | reason.org | Kyle Abbott

Arguments concluded last November in U.S. vs. Google, one of the most important antitrust trials in recent history, focusing on whether the massive tech company has an unfair monopoly on internet searches. The outcome of the trial will depend, in part, on which definition of an “internet search” the court embraces. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is pushing a definition of the search engine marketplace that is inappropriately narrow and fails to capture the role of search in consumer behavior.
North Carolina bill would fund schools more fairly, reduce complex bureaucracy

Jun 1, 2023 | reason.org | Christian Barnard |Kyle Abbott

Throughout North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school finance lawsuit, multiple judges have ordered legislators to invest more in a “sound basic education,” as the state constitution requires. While much of this battle is about how much money is spent on K-12 education, more attention should be focused on how the state distributes the money it spends.
Examining the impacts of education reform legislation proposed in Kansas

Mar 15, 2023 | reason.org | Kyle Abbott

In the 2023 legislative session, Kansas lawmakers have a historic opportunity to pass vital school choice legislation and reform the state’s K-12 education finance system. By expanding its modest tax credit scholarship program and enacting an education savings account program, the state could improve from one of the worst states for school choice to one of the best.
Kyle Abbott, Author at Reason Foundation

Mar 15, 2023 | reason.org | Kyle Abbott

Kyle Abbott is a policy analyst at Reason Foundation. Prior to joining Reason, Abbott served in a variety of capacities with federal and state legislatures. Most recently, Kyle was the chief of staff to Kansas House Appropriations Committee Chairman Troy Waymaster. Abbott is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in the Department of Public Policy, where his research focuses on school choice and school finance.