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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 ...

Millions of Americans are walking away from Obamacare

Across all Obamacare marketplace plans, the average monthly premium paid by enrollees after subsidies jumped 58% this year, from $113 to $178. Average deductibles climbed 37%, to $3,786. Those increases didn’t come out of nowhere. Insurers raised underlying Obamacare premiums ...

RIPA, Race, Policing, and the Numbers We Choose to See

Consider RIPA, the Racial and Identity Profiling Board. In 2024, 533 agencies reported 5,065,428 encounters featuring 75 data points ranging from why encounters begin, whether they result from calls for service, what officers do, whether they search someone and what ...

Catching Breast Cancer Early Is Still Hard. Melania Trump Can Help

The cost of finding breast cancer late can be staggering–both in dollars and in years of life. A new study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society found that, among Medicare beneficiaries, first-year oral prescription drug ...

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The peptide market has raced far ahead of both the science and the safeguards meant to protect patients. Federal regulators need to take the explosion ...
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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 ...
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Clear conflict of interest: Time to sever sheriff and coroner offices

The Democratic Legislature clearly has a bone to pick with Bianco over his seizure of county election ballots and his conservative, MAGA-style politics. This measure ...

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