You’re Next: New PRI Study Finds Wealth Taxes May Start with Billionaires, But Average Families Could Pay the Price
SACRAMENTO – A new Pacific Research Institute study released today finds that average Californians could ultimately bear significant economic costs from a wealth tax – through fewer job opportunities, weaker income growth and increased fiscal pressure that could eventually reach ...
NEW PRI Book Tells Stories of Students, Parents and Educators Fighting Back Against DEI
SACRAMENTO – Students, parents, teachers, school board members and college professors across the country are challenging controversial so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies (DEI) and winning. Their stories are at the heart of a new book released today by the ...
A $100 Billion Drug Discount Program Is Finally Facing New Scrutiny
Congress established 340B in 1992 to help safety-net hospitals and clinics stretch their resources. The program requires drug manufacturers to sell outpatient medicines at substantial discounts to eligible facilities, which can bill insurers at higher rates and retain the difference. ...
How much would Becerra’s healthcare promises cost the state? Not even he knows
Xavier Becerra has promised to be California’s “Health Care Governor.” Becerra’s agenda is ambitious: He wants California taxpayers to preserve public healthcare coverage threatened by federal funding cuts, maintain publicly funded care for undocumented immigrants, spend more on primary care ...
The Dead Do Tell a Tale.
For years, criminal-justice reformers treated fewer arrests, prosecutions and people behind bars as measures of success. Proposition 47 embodied that philosophy. Drug possession and some theft felonies became misdemeanors. Incarceration fell. State savings were supposed to fund treatment, mental-health services ...
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The Evidence We Leave Behind
On November 13, 2022, my daughter and I had breakfast in Moscow, Idaho, a Dad’s Weekend tradition from her years at Washington State University. We ...
The FDA Is Struggling To Police The Peptide Boom
Unlike FDA-approved peptide medicines, many compounds marketed online have never undergone rigorous clinical testing or regulatory review. That leaves fundamental questions about their safety and ...
Medicare for All – Careful of What You Ask For
Medicare for All is back on Democrats’ legislative menu. It was featured on the lengthy list of healthcare policy options a House Democratic working group ...
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