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The Biosimilar Promise

Low-Cost Biosimilars Are Saving Billions, Potential Savings Are Even Greater
October 28, 2024
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The Biosimilar Promise

Biosimilars Often Reduce Prices by 50 Percent or More
October 1, 2024
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NEW BRIEF: Washington Must End Physician Price Controls, Reform Medicare Payment System to Prevent Doctor Shortages
July 25, 2024
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NEW ISSUE BRIEF: Biosimilar Competition Lowers Patient Drug Costs, New Competition Will Bring Even More Savings
June 11, 2024
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NEW BRIEF: JAMA Study Justifying Drug Price Controls Deeply Flawed, Patient Health Jeopardized if Findings Implemented
May 8, 2024
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NEW BRIEF: Regulatory Roadblocks Hinder Development of New COVID-19 Treatments for the Immuno­compromised
March 6, 2024
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NEW BRIEF: End Anti-Market Distortions in Current PBM System Would Lower Patient Costs, Increase Access to Life-Saving Drugs
February 7, 2024
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CAPITAL IDEAS: A 2024 Healthcare Reform Agenda for Achieving Affordable, Accessible, High Quality Care
December 4, 2023
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NEW BRIEF: COVID-19 Restrictions Led to Small Health Benefits Negated by Tradeoff of Huge Economic, Education Losses
September 26, 2023
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NEW BRIEF: Cash-Based Support Would Empower Vulnerable to Buy Private Health Insurance, Create More Effective Safety Net
June 20, 2023
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NEW BRIEF: Empowering Providers to Promote Healthcare Innovation
January 4, 2023
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NEW STUDY: 340B Providers Reap Big Profits, Should Be Reformed to Ensure At-Risk Patients Receive Affordable Care
November 16, 2022
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NEW BRIEF: Promoting Transparency and Competition in the Drug Market
October 10, 2022
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Policy To-Do Lists
October 6, 2022
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NEW BRIEF: Biosimilars Save Patients Over $11 Billion Annually, Fixing Broken System Would Help Patients Save More
August 22, 2022
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NEW BRIEF: Establishing An Efficient Health Insurance Market
July 26, 2022
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NEW STUDY: U.K. Vaping Regulations Based on Risks of Vaping Relative to Smoking Provide Lessons for U.S.
June 21, 2022
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NEW BRIEF: Broken System Imposes Higher Out-of-Pocket Costs on Patients, Puts Interests of Government and Insurers First
April 28, 2022
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The Flawed Third-Party Payer System Drives the Drug Affordability Problem
February 28, 2022
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NEW STUDY: Creating Two-Part Drug Pricing System Would Ensure Prices More Accurately Reflect How Patients
February 3, 2022
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The Fundamental Flaws of the Third-Party Payer System
January 12, 2022
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NEW BRIEF: 340B Hospitals More Profitable, Provide Less Charity Care, Receive Unwarranted Subsidies
November 10, 2021
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NEW BRIEF: U.S. Patients Could Save Up to $5.8 Billion Through Competition from Humira and Enbrel Biosimilars
November 3, 2021
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New PRI Series to Show How Flawed U.S. Health Insurance System Inflates Costs, Decreases Quality and Reduces Health Outcomes
October 21, 2021
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NEW BRIEF: Focus Groups Overwhelmingly Disapprove of Government “Negotiated” Drug Pricing
October 19, 2021
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ISSUE BRIEF: ICER Analyses Are Flawed, Undervalue Life-Saving Medicines, and Are Biased Toward Price Controls
March 17, 2021
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NEW BRIEF: Tearing Down Drug ‘Rebate Walls’ Would Save Patients, Improve Health Care Outcomes
December 9, 2020
NEW BRIEF: Counterfeit Drugs Harm Patients, Economy, Innovation
October 13, 2020
NEW BRIEF: Mandating that Drug Rebates Benefit Consumers Will Help Patients with High Out-of-Pocket Drug Costs
September 29, 2020
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New Brief Shows Impact of California’s Surprise Medical Billing Law: Lower Quality Care, Reduced Access, Higher System Costs
August 19, 2020
NEW STUDY: Future Medical Innovation Will Be Hindered Unless Elected Officials Embrace Health Care Entrepreneurship
June 25, 2020
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NEW BRIEF: Expanding “Buy America” Rules Would Hurt U.S. Patients and Economy, Hinder Development of Coronavirus Vaccine
April 21, 2020
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NEW ISSUE BRIEF: Expanding Biosimilars Use Could Save Patients, Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs By 17 Percent
March 9, 2020
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January 16, 2020
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NEW STUDY shows that Reforming Supply Chain & Drug Pricing System Will Lower Health Care Costs
January 8, 2020
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December 17, 2019
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NEW ISSUE BRIEF: Biosimilars Study Shows Massive State and Taxpayer Savings Possible by Expanding Biosimilars Market
October 2, 2019
ISSUE BRIEF: Increased Use of Biosimilars Could Bring Billions in Savings for Patients, Providers, Taxpayers
July 11, 2019
Much-Publicized Report on Financial Returns on Cancer Treatments Contains Significant Flaws and Biases, Finds New PRI Brief
June 12, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Recent History of Manipulative Taxation
January 16, 2019
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New PRI Study: Congress Has Some Unfinished Business – Acting to Repeal the Medical Device Tax
October 8, 2018
Dr. Henry Miller Publishes New Federalist Society White Paper on Regulation of Food & Ag Biotech
September 28, 2018
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NEW STUDY: Medicare Competitive Bidding Process Should Be Reformed
July 26, 2018
New Study: Patients, Employers and Taxpayers Could Save Significantly if Barriers to Biosimilars Removed
June 5, 2018
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New Study: Patients Could Save Time and Money if Neighborhood Pharmacies Can Administer More Vaccines
April 17, 2018
Sally Pipes Releases New Book The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care
March 5, 2018
Trump Is Right: The UK’s NHS Is Failing And More Money Won’t Save It
February 28, 2018
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CAPITAL IDEAS:The Next Step on the Slippery Slope Toward Single-Payer in California
January 17, 2018
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Well-Meaning Drug Discount Program Encourages Hospitals to Profit Rather than Effectively Serve Poor
December 13, 2017
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Majority Party’s War on Trump Is Really War on California’s Middle Class
June 20, 2017
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New Study Finds High Prescription Drug Costs Are Not Driving Up U.S. Healthcare Costs
May 16, 2017
New Brief Highlights The Economic Costs Of Pharmacy Benefit Managers
May 8, 2017
New PRI Study Finds That High Prescription Drug Costs Are Not Driving Up U.S. Health Care Costs
April 25, 2017
ISSUE BRIEF: Nevada Proposal To Regulate Excess Costs Are Price Controls By Another Name
April 24, 2017
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ISSUE BRIEF: Oregon Proposal To Regulate Excess Costs Is Price Controls By Another Name
March 1, 2017
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Who Has The Best Plan?
February 1, 2017
New PRI Study: Free Market Policies Needed To Stop Drug-Resistant Diseases, Encourage New Life-Saving Treatments
November 21, 2016
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Who Has the Best Health Care Plan – Hillary or Donald?
October 11, 2016
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July 4, 2016
Improving the Incentive to Innovate
June 22, 2016
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Why Pharmaceutical Prices Drop Once Drugs Are Off-Patent
June 9, 2014
The Broken State of American Health Insurance Prior to the Affordable Care Act
January 21, 2014
India’s War On Intellectual Property Rights May Bring With It A Body Count
September 16, 2013
The Cure for Obamacare
June 24, 2013
New Study Finds Startup Business Increases Growth of Real SGP
May 14, 2013
Myths and Realities of Obamacare
March 21, 2013
New Report on Controlling Rising Government Compensation Costs
November 5, 2012
Dental Service Organizations Disproportionately Benefit Low-Income Communities
October 25, 2012
Economist Finds Dental Service Organizations (DSOs) More Cost-Effective Than Average Independent Dentists
September 19, 2012
Obamacare’s tax on medical devices
May 1, 2012
Skin in the Game: Governor Brown is Right and Secretary Sebelius Is Wrong About Medicaid Co-Pays
April 3, 2012
Chart Focus: Will Americans Ever Control As Many Of Our Own Health Dollars as the Swiss, the Swedes, or the Canadians?
April 1, 2012
Feed the Beast: Renewing the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA)
March 1, 2012
The Pacific Research Institute, Benjamin Rush Society, Docs 4 Patient Care, Galen Institute and Angel Raich File Amicus Brief Against ObamaCare
February 13, 2012
If Health Spending is Increasing Slower, Why Are Premiums Rising Faster?
January 23, 2012
The Pipes Plan: The Top Ten Ways to Dismantle and Replace ObamaCare
January 9, 2012
Over Regulation Reduces Choice in Health Insurance: An Update Health Policy Prescription
December 21, 2011
The Medicare Auction Design and Incentives for Research and Development
November 18, 2011
Rick Perry’s Texas: It’s Better to Create More Jobs Than More Medicaid Dependents
September 21, 2011
Why Health Exchanges Don’t Work
August 1, 2011
Why the Utah Health Exchange is No Model for Health Reform
July 27, 2011
Health Insurance Exchanges: What If They Issued 347 Pages of Regulations and Nobody Cared?
July 19, 2011
Comparative Effectiveness Reviews: Quantitative Analysis of Research and Development Investment Effects
July 15, 2011
Bust or Bailout? The Future of Private Health Plans Under ObamaCare
July 5, 2011
Lesson for California: Washington State’s Bipartisan Medicaid Reform Will Benefit Taxpayers and Patients
June 29, 2011
Federal Health Reform and Stock Market Returns of Health Insurers
June 15, 2011
Medicare Auctions for Durable Medical Equipment: Price Suppression and Research and Development Investment
June 14, 2011
Why Medicaid Should Be Easier to Fix than Entitlement Programs
June 1, 2011
The Ryan Republican Medicare Reforms: What They Are, What They’re Not, and What They Might Become
April 26, 2011
Replacing Employer-Monopoly Health Benefits: Tax Deduction or Tax Credit?
March 15, 2011
Has the Fight Against Obamacare Morphed into a Fight Against Government-Run Health Care?
March 9, 2011
There Is No Real Difference Between an “Individual Mandate” to Buy Health Insurance and the Health Benefits We Have Today
February 15, 2011
In the Nick of Time: Rhode Island’s Medicaid Waiver Shows How States Can Save Their Budgets from Obamacare’s Assault
January 18, 2011
Why Retiring Baby Boomers Will find Medi-Cal a Bust on Long-Term Care
January 12, 2011
Medi-Cal Long-Term Care: Safety Net or Hammock?
January 5, 2011
The End of the “Individual Mandate” Is Not the End of Obamacare
January 5, 2011
Medi-Cal Long-Term Care
January 4, 2011
Should Your State Establish an Obamacare Health Insurance Exchange?
November 8, 2010
Beyond ObamaCare: The Ninth and Tenth Amendments and the “Right to Health Care”
November 5, 2010
Costs and Consequences: Rate-of-Return Biases, Rate Suppression, and Market Incentives for Quality in Property/Casualty Insurance Regulation
October 26, 2010
Governor Schwarzenegger: Don’t Build This Wall!
September 22, 2010
ObamaCare Will Dramatically Reduce Choice in Private Insurance
September 9, 2010
Which is More Obese, San Francisco’s Kids, or Its Government?
August 25, 2010
BOOK RELEASE: THE TRUTH ABOUT OBAMACARE
August 5, 2010
Leviathan’s Drug Problem
July 27, 2010
Medical Tort: Ranking the 50 States
July 13, 2010
Should The State Decide How Many Nurses a Hospital Must Hire?
June 30, 2010
The Federal Government Can Never “Fix” the “Doc Fix”
June 8, 2010
Honest Talk About California’s Uninsured
April 28, 2010
Repeal and Replace, But With What?
April 12, 2010
Double Jeopardy? Californians Are Already Protected from Health Insurance Cancellations
March 31, 2010
What the Congressional Budget Office Doesn’t Score: More Than $6.5 Billion Annual State Revenue at Risk from Federal Health “Reform”
March 23, 2010
Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn?
March 17, 2010
New PRI Sudy Shows that Increased Federal Control of Health Insurance Plans Will Reduce States’ Tax Revenue
March 17, 2010
Did You Hear About Anthem Blue Cross Cutting Premiums 20 Percent?
March 3, 2010
Popular but Pointless: Subjecting Health Insurers to Federal Antitrust Laws Would Avoid, Not Achieve, Reform
February 9, 2010
The Rich Get Richer: The Senate’s Medicaid Proposal Gives a Bigger Bailout to Wealthier States
January 21, 2010
Entrepreneurs’ Coverage: An Alternative Health Policy Reform
January 19, 2010
Study Finds that Insurance Coverage Free of Benefit Mandates Would Enroll Nearly 17 million Individuals
January 19, 2010
The Federal Government’s Regulatory Burden on American Health Care Has Increased By More Than Half in a Decade
December 22, 2009
Medicare Advantage or Medicare Monopoly: Protecting Seniors’ Choices and Taxpayers’ Wallets in the Federal Government’s Largest Entitlement Program
December 16, 2009
New Study Finds that Medicare Advantage Relieves the “Hidden Tax” On Privately Insured Americans
December 16, 2009
The Advantage of Medicare Advantage: Why Reducing Seniors’ Choices Won’t Protect Taxpayers
November 24, 2009
Why California’s “Two-Plan” Does Not Support the “Public Option”
November 4, 2009
The Facts about Medical Malpractice Liability Costs
October 7, 2009
San Francisco’s Employer Health Tax: Change We Can Do Without
September 9, 2009
Meet the New Boss, Same As the Old Boss: President Obama’s Best Health “Insurance” Reforms Were Passed In 1997
September 9, 2009
Governor Schwarzenegger Misunderstands California’s Lessons for Federal Health Reform
August 12, 2009
The Health Care Crisis Ain’t What It Used to Be: Personal Spending on Non-Health Goods and Services Has Increased by One-Third Since 1995
August 12, 2009
U.S. Index of Health Ownership: 3rd Edition
July 21, 2009
Americans Beware: “Healthy” San Francisco’s Tax Hikes May Be Coming Your Way
July 15, 2009
Medicaid’s Costs, Like Medicare’s, Have Risen Far More Than the Costs of Private Health Care
July 14, 2009
California Feminist Seeking Young, Healthy Man to Subsidize Health Care Costs: Must Enjoy Higher Premiums
July 7, 2009
Time to Sunset California’s “Relic” Stem Cell Institute
July 1, 2009
Health Care’s Future: Mexican Medical Tourism for Californians?
June 17, 2009
Medicare Costs Have Risen Far More than the Costs of Private Health Care
June 9, 2009
Does California Need a Commission on the Status of Women?
June 2, 2009
Testimony of John R. Graham, Director of Health Care Studies, Pacific Research Institute to Arizona House Health & Human Services
May 26, 2009
Statement by Pacific Research Institute Health Care Studies Director on the Arizona Health Care Freedom Act
May 26, 2009
Deciphering the Polls: How to Win Health Reform
May 12, 2009
Is the CIRM Good Medicine for California?
May 6, 2009
Is Health Care A “Right”? Not According to Governments Who Run Health Care
April 16, 2009
Government Health Care Competition: The Audacity of Hope Against Experience
April 14, 2009
Union Bosses, Corporate Lobbyists, and Maybe Even A Secretary of Health
March 17, 2009
Testimony to the U.S. Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health
March 17, 2009
The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide
March 12, 2009
Health Reform in California: Three Simple Steps
February 25, 2009
John R. Graham Invited to Testify on Health Reform at the California State Senate Standing Health Committee
February 22, 2009
If Eight Is Enough, Why Isn’t $60 Billion?
February 19, 2009
Cajun Care: Medicaid Reform in Louisiana
December 10, 2008
Election 2008: An Unhealthy Outcome
November 12, 2008
It’s a Lock: Governor’s veto traps California in obsolete medical research
October 29, 2008
The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide-1
October 22, 2008
Presidential Prescriptions: Diagnosing the Candidates’ Health Reforms
October 7, 2008
2008 U.S. Index of Health Ownership
August 14, 2008
Ranking Health Care in the States: The Most Important Input is the Patient
August 12, 2008
Unbalanced Billing In California Hospitals: Is This A Problem the State Can Solve By Getting Out of the Way?
July 23, 2008
State Health Benefit Mandates Increase the Number of Uninsured
July 1, 2008
From Heart Transplants to Hairpieces: The Questionable Benefits of State Benefit Mandates for Health Insurance
July 1, 2008
From Heart Transplants to Hairpieces: The Questionable Benefits of State Benefit Mandates
July 1, 2008
Medicare Means Testing: Test the Deductible, Not the Premium
June 24, 2008
Escaping From Unhealthy Health Care Dependency: Lessons from Down Under
May 13, 2008
California Can Learn Health Care Lessons From Down Under
April 30, 2008
Why Consumer-Driven Health Care is Crashing on the Shoals of Medicare
April 8, 2008
More Scrutiny for CIRM and Big-Government Health Care
March 31, 2008
California Health Care Deforminator Model ABX1 1: A Requiem
March 13, 2008
What Now for California Health Care?
February 13, 2008
Is Dr. Robert Jarvik Public Health Enemy Number 1? Pharmaceutical Promotion in a Free Society
February 11, 2008
New PRI Report Exposes True Cost of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Health Care Proposal
January 22, 2008
Amicus Brief Against ObamaCare
May 12, 0201

Business & Economics

SpendingWatchSquare

Spending Watch

While National Economic Performance Has Supported State Revenue Growth, Greater Spending Restraint Is Still Required
November 12, 2024
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Japan’s Ishiba: Time for ‘Asian NATO’ to Counter China and North Korea
November 1, 2024
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The Gordon Chang Report–Will China’s ‘Doom Loop’ Economy Trigger the Next Great Depression?
October 10, 2024
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Spending Watch

The Governor’s Special Session Will Worsen Gasoline Affordability
September 24, 2024
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The Gordon Chang Report–China: Mastermind of Middle East Turmoil
September 16, 2024
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NEW BRIEF: CalPERS’ Political Agenda Puts Taxpayers and Retirees at Risk with Low Returns, Higher Unfunded Liabilities
September 4, 2024
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Spending Watch

California’s Expensive but Ineffective Income Support Spending
August 27, 2024
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Undermines the Social Responsibility of Businesses and Investment Managers
August 12, 2024
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Spending Watch

Californians Have Little to Show for All That Government Spending
July 2, 2024
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NEW STUDY FINDS

Americans Pay $1,300 ‘Tort Tax,’ Fixing Legal System Would Grow Economy by 2 Percent
July 12, 2023
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NEW STUDY: Despite Billions Spent, Project Homekey Providing No Way Home for State’s Homeless
July 21, 2022
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NEW STUDY: U.K. Vaping Regulations Based on Risks of Vaping Relative to Smoking Provide Lessons for U.S.
June 21, 2022
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NEW BRIEF: City and State Climate Change Lawsuits Drive Up Gas Prices, Discourage Clean Energy Innovation
May 16, 2022
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NEW STUDY: Pandemic Response Grew Government ‘Barriers to Opportunity’ for Entrepreneurs
April 1, 2022
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NEW STUDY: Competitive Markets Reduce Electricity Costs, Improve Reliability, Lower Emissions
March 28, 2022
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NEW STUDY: Rejecting Push to Restrict Gig Entrepreneurship Key to Driving Innovation, Economic Growth, Higher Incomes
February 17, 2022
NEW STUDY: Bad Policy Choices Zap Californians with $1450 Average Electricity Bills
February 2, 2022
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NEW STUDY: Government Fees ‘Nickel and Dime’ Californians Out of Hundreds of Dollars Per Year
December 9, 2021
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New study analyzes how federal relief efforts impact small business, innovation amid Covid pandemic
November 11, 2021
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NEW STUDY: Harmful Policy Choices Driving Employers, Every Age Group and Income Level Away from California
September 23, 2021
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CAPITAL IDEAS: More of California’s Big Cities on the Way to Becoming Next Detroit
July 23, 2021
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Is This How California is Solving Its Housing Crisis?
June 17, 2021
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CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Past, Even if Not Perfect, Set Up Its Prosperous Future
May 12, 2021
NEW STUDY: Future Medical Innovation Will Be Hindered Unless Elected Officials Embrace Health Care Entrepreneurship
June 25, 2020
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NEW STUDY finds Overregulation Hurts Immigrant and Low-Income Entrepreneurs Trying to Achieve the American Dream
October 30, 2019
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NEW ISSUE BRIEF: Biosimilars Study Shows Massive State and Taxpayer Savings Possible by Expanding Biosimilars Market
October 2, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Electric Car Future to Nowhere
October 1, 2019
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ISSUE BRIEF: Damon Dunn Shares Stories from His Rise from Poverty, Makes the Case for Why Socialism Doesn’t Work
September 4, 2019
NEW STUDY: State and Local Tax Deduction “Makes it Rain” in California, Paid for by Taxpayers in Low Tax States
August 15, 2019
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Colorado Low Emission Vehicle Standard Would Increase Energy Poverty Without Major Emission Reductions
July 22, 2019
New Study Finds ESG Funds Underperform Broader Investment Funds Over Long-Term
May 22, 2019
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NEW STUDY: Costly Regulations Hurt Entrepreneurship, Reform Needed to ‘Break Down Barriers’ for Jobs, Innovation
April 3, 2019
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Facing $22 Trillion National Debt, New PRI Report Shows How “15 Percent Solution” Can Cut Debt, Grow Economy
February 19, 2019
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New Study Shows California/New York Approach to Fighting Global Warming Hurts Working Class and Minority Communities
December 5, 2018
New PRI Chartbook Shows California’s Public Pension Monster Has Grown to Nearly $1 Trillion
September 5, 2018
CAPITAL IDEAS – Choice Robbers: California Nannies Won’t Give Up
July 26, 2018
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CAPITAL IDEAS: A Futuristic and Cheaper Alternative to High-Speed Rail
June 27, 2018
New Study: Patients, Employers and Taxpayers Could Save Significantly if Barriers to Biosimilars Removed
June 5, 2018
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How Much Should We Spend? New PRI Report Offers the 15% Solution
May 2, 2018
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CAPITAL IDEAS: What Executives in High-Demand Industries are Saying About Moving to California
March 19, 2018
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New PRI Survey: Housing, Education, Business Climate Top Reasons Why Industries Aren’t Moving to California
February 28, 2018
Government Electric Car Subsidies Are ‘Costly Subsidies for the Rich’, Finds New Study
February 12, 2018
CAPITAL IDEAS: Governor Brown Ignores State’s Poverty Crisis
February 7, 2018
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New PRI Study: Breaking Down Barriers in Insurance Markets Would Benefit Consumers, Expand Job Opportunities
January 31, 2018
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New Issue Brief: State Anti-Poverty Programs Are Well-Intended, Yet Not Very Successful in Reducing Poverty
January 8, 2018
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Well-Meaning Drug Discount Program Encourages Hospitals to Profit Rather than Effectively Serve Poor
December 13, 2017
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NEW STUDY: Californians Would Pay $1.9 Billion More For Insurance If Congress Passes Border Adjustment Tax
July 12, 2017
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New PRI Issue Brief Finds Government Policies Have Strangled State’s Housing Market, Made Housing Unaffordable
June 14, 2017
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Time for Return to Reasonableness in Federal Land Grabs
May 22, 2017
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New Study Finds High Prescription Drug Costs Are Not Driving Up U.S. Healthcare Costs
May 16, 2017
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Will Largest Gas Tax Increase In State History Bring Traffic Relief?
April 26, 2017
New PRI Study Finds That High Prescription Drug Costs Are Not Driving Up U.S. Health Care Costs
April 25, 2017
New Study – Beyond the New Normal Part 4: Policy Mix Theory and Historical Evidence
April 19, 2017
The “Golden Skirts,” Norway’s New Quota Queens
April 6, 2017
CAPITAL IDEAS: Rent Control Would Put Housing Out of Reach for More Californians
March 24, 2017
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Beyond The New Normal – Part 3: Measuring Economic Growth
March 1, 2017
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Latest California Climate Change Plan Doubles Down On Job-Killing Policies
February 21, 2017
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Beyond The New Normal – Part 2: Accounting For Government
February 3, 2017
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Beyond the New Normal – New Study: Slow Economic Growth Is Not “The New Normal” For U.S. Economy
January 18, 2017
Beyond the New Normal – New Study: Slow Economic Growth Is Not “The New Normal” For U.S. Economy
January 18, 2017
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Different Thinking Needed to Meet Demand of California’s Clean Energy Future
January 10, 2017
New PRI Study Finds Clean Power Plan Will Raise Electricity Costs, Worsen Problem Of Energy Poverty
October 28, 2016
CAPITAL IDEAS: Reforming California’s Pension System
August 30, 2016
Improving the Incentive to Innovate
June 22, 2016
CAPITAL IDEAS: Market-Driven Solutions to Relieve Drought
May 13, 2016
Regulating the Upstream Energy Industry: Getting the Balance Right
May 12, 2016
Corporate Inversions Are the Symptoms; Poor Tax Policies Are the Disease
February 24, 2016
California Pension Crisis
January 8, 2016
Prospective Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Entrepreneurship
November 20, 2015
The 50-State Small Business Regulation Index
July 24, 2015
The Regressive Impact on Ohio’s Families from EPA’s Proposed Regulations
December 10, 2014
Devaluation in a Free Trade World
December 3, 2014
The Seven Lean Years: The Economic and Fiscal Consequences from California’s Prop. 30
November 17, 2014
Plan Bay Area: The Mayor’s Transportation Task Force Report
October 21, 2014
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50 State Index Of Energy Regulation
August 7, 2014
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Going Broke One City at a Time: Municipal Bankruptcies in America
January 10, 2014
New Pacific Research Institute Study Finds that “Plan Bay Area” Will Drive Housing Prices Higher, Intensify Traffic, and Increase Air Pollution
June 25, 2013
Obama’s Green Team
June 7, 2013
New Study Finds Startup Business Increases Growth of Real SGP
May 14, 2013
The U.S. Corporate Tax Code: Ripe for Bipartisan Reform
May 13, 2013
An Economic Assessment of New York’s Smoking Policies
May 8, 2013
New Analysis of Orange County Toll Roads
April 9, 2013
Municipal Bankruptcy: An Overview for Local Officials
April 5, 2013
California’s 33% Renewable Portfolio Standard Will Raise Power Rates by 13 Percent
January 22, 2013
Corporate Income Tax Elasticity: How Republicans Can Have Lower Tax Rates and Democrats Can Collect More Tax Revenue!
December 12, 2012
Deep Reform, Not Window Dressing, for a Cooler, Cleaner California
December 9, 2012
The Crusade Against Plastic Bags
November 30, 2012
New Report on Controlling Rising Government Compensation Costs
November 5, 2012
Economist Finds Dental Service Organizations (DSOs) More Cost-Effective Than Average Independent Dentists
September 19, 2012
Rick Perry’s Texas: It’s Better to Create More Jobs Than More Medicaid Dependents
September 21, 2011
Educated Legislators, Bad Economy
July 6, 2011
Brown Busts the Budget
June 22, 2011
Federal Health Reform and Stock Market Returns of Health Insurers
June 15, 2011
A Case for Affirmative Disclosure of Public Pensions
June 15, 2011
Medicare Auctions for Durable Medical Equipment: Price Suppression and Research and Development Investment
June 14, 2011
Recession and Recovery in California
April 12, 2011
Bringing More Sunshine to California
March 16, 2011
National Sunshine Week: New Report Shows How to Bring More Open Government to California
March 16, 2011
Bye-Bye Secret Ballot?
March 16, 2011
Analyze This: Unelected Regulatory Zealots Don’t Need More Power
March 2, 2011
Redevelopment is Redistribution
February 16, 2011
Why California Should Not Follow New York’s Internet Tax Plan
February 2, 2011
A War That Has Ended
February 1, 2011
Going Down Swinging in 2010
December 7, 2010
Costs and Consequences: Rate-of-Return Biases, Rate Suppression, and Market Incentives for Quality in Property/Casualty Insurance Regulation
October 26, 2010
California Tax Facts 2011
October 19, 2010
No Bang for the Taxpayer’s Buck: Why California Must Reform Spending and Trim Government
October 13, 2010
PRI Study: Californians Deserve Better Value for Tax Dollars
October 13, 2010
Can We Fix the California Crackup?
October 13, 2010
The Whole 209 Yards: California’s Proposition for the Nation
October 5, 2010
The Prospective Effects of Proposition 23 on Employment in California
October 4, 2010
Does California’s Budget Crisis Discriminate Against Women?
September 29, 2010
20 years later: Self esteem movement was utopian hucksterism
August 15, 2010
Government by State Employees is Not Government by the People
June 16, 2010
Taxifornia by Jason Clemens
June 15, 2010
Tech Titans or Political Pinatas: How Global Antitrust Laws String Up, Beat Down, and Hold Back America’s Leading Innovators
June 13, 2010
State IT Plan Should Help Silicon Valley and Respect Taxpayers
May 19, 2010
California’s State IT Overhaul Plan Lacks Critical Safeguards for Taxpayers and Transparency, Concludes New PRI Study
April 27, 2010
Taxifornia
April 15, 2010
California Ranks Last in Combination Measure of Tax Burden and Tax Structure
April 15, 2010
Court Routes Internet Around Government Regulations
April 14, 2010
Margaret, Cristina, and Hillary
April 6, 2010
Pacific Research Institute Releases New Study on Government to Government Lobbying
March 10, 2010
Sacramento takes aim at free parking
February 26, 2010
The War Against Free Parking
February 17, 2010
2010 Tort Liability Index Ranks States’ Tort Climate
February 6, 2010
Why the Market and Old-fashioned Meritocracy are Better for Women than Big Government
February 2, 2010
California’s Corporate Exodus
January 27, 2010
A Woman’s Nation?
January 5, 2010
Plunder! Dissects Government Unions
December 10, 2009
An Empire Disaster: Why New York’s Tort System is Broken and How to Fix It
November 17, 2009
Why Feminists Make No Allowance for Women’s Choices
November 3, 2009
California and Canada Provide Guidance on Card-Check Legislation
October 29, 2009
California’s E-Waste Waste
October 7, 2009
Pacific Research Institute Releases New Study on California’s E-Waste Waste
October 7, 2009
Is the Recession Harder on Women than Men?
October 6, 2009
Is San Francisco’s “Open Season” on Data a Model for State Government?
September 2, 2009
Tort Tally 2009
August 29, 2009
Why the Silver State Mines the Golden State for Business
August 26, 2009
Assessing the State of the Golden State
August 18, 2009
Governor Schwarzenegger Misunderstands California’s Lessons for Federal Health Reform
August 12, 2009
Will a California-Style Texting Ban Make the Nation Safer?
August 5, 2009
The Gender Gap in Happiness
August 4, 2009
“The Spending-Industrial Complex” and the Future of California
July 29, 2009
The Pacific Research Institute Introduces the California Enterprise Value Index
July 9, 2009
California Enterprise Value Index
July 9, 2009
Governor Schwarzenegger Takes a Stand for Tech
July 8, 2009
The Pacific Research Institute Releases Primer on Internet Privacy
July 7, 2009
Click Confidential: A Privacy Primer for the Social Web
July 7, 2009
Digital Dialogues
July 3, 2009
Time to Sunset California’s “Relic” Stem Cell Institute
July 1, 2009
Does California Need a Commission on the Status of Women?
June 2, 2009
Is the CIRM Good Medicine for California?
May 6, 2009
Nanny Government Plays from the Rough
May 5, 2009
Tort Law Tally
April 28, 2009
That Voodoo That You Do So Well
April 4, 2009
Union Bosses, Corporate Lobbyists, and Maybe Even A Secretary of Health
March 17, 2009
New Report Touts Benefits of Economic Freedom
January 7, 2009
The Sizzle of Economic Freedom: How Economic Freedom Helps You and Why You Should Demand More
January 7, 2009
Why Margaret Thatcher Matters
January 6, 2009
New Year’s Resolution for California: Let Economic Freedom Ring
December 31, 2008
Study ranks Idaho highly in economic freedom
December 1, 2008
Broadband Summit: Connecting America
November 6, 2008
Governor Arnold’s Regendering Plan
November 4, 2008
It’s a Lock: Governor’s veto traps California in obsolete medical research
October 29, 2008
Lessons from the $388-Million Hyatt Case: How current tax policy hurts California, and how the state can fix its revenue problem
September 17, 2008
New Report Reveals Which States Have Most Economic Freedom
September 16, 2008
Will a lawsuit today keep Apple away?
September 3, 2008
How Water, Oil, and Government Mix in California
August 19, 2008
Ranking Health Care in the States: The Most Important Input is the Patient
August 12, 2008
Letter to Senators Feinstein and Boxer regarding (S. Amdt. 4983) amendment to H.R. 3221
June 27, 2008
Bye Bye Nerdy! Congress Slams the Door on California’s Scientists and Engineers
June 11, 2008
Burdening Foundations: Economic Costs of Assembly Bill 624
June 1, 2008
Ending the Revenue Rollercoaster – The Benefits of a Three Percent Flat Income Tax for California
May 13, 2008
PRI Introduces a 3% Flat Income Tax Rate Plan for Californians
May 6, 2008
California Lawmaker Says Speech Should be Free on the Internet … After Taxes?
April 9, 2008
Male-Female Facts and Fallacies
April 1, 2008
Pacific Research Institute Releases Study on Wireless “Net Neutrality”
March 26, 2008
Wireless with Strings Attached: Net Neutrality and the Grounding of Wireless Innovation
March 25, 2008
U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report
March 11, 2008
Pacific Research Institute Releases 2008 State-By-State Ranking of the Best and Worst Tort Systems in America
March 11, 2008
Big Brother Targets Foundations and Nonprofits
January 23, 2008
New PRI Report Exposes True Cost of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Health Care Proposal
January 22, 2008

Education

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CAPITAL IDEAS – Dim View: New PRI Poll Shows Just 4 out of 10 Voters Rate their Local School Boards Positively
September 3, 2024
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New PRI Book Explores The Great Classroom Collapse Leaving Students Unprepared for College and the Workforce
July 9, 2024
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New PRI Poll: As New School Year Begins, Voters See Room for Improvement with Local Schools
August 28, 2023
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SCOTUS Harvard-UNC Case: Higher Ed’s Discrimination Against Asians
April 24, 2023
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Time for an Alternative to Common Core Testing
December 22, 2022
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Policy To-Do Lists
October 6, 2022
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CAPITAL IDEAS—Not April Fool’s Day: Newsom Gets Education Award as California Students Suffer and Fail
August 24, 2022
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CAPITAL IDEAS: The 2022 Education Landscape and the Coming Homeschool Tsunami
April 11, 2022
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With Number of Homeschoolers Surpassing Eight Million, New PRI Book Explores The Homeschool Boom
November 15, 2021
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CAPITAL IDEAS: The Education Landscape: Where We Are and What the Future Holds
September 7, 2021
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CAPITAL IDEAS – The Road to Reopening: Where we are and where we need to go to open up our schools and meet the needs of children
March 16, 2021
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NEW BRIEF: New Obstacles Hinder Students Trapped in Failing Schools From Escaping to Charter Schools
January 5, 2021
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Just Released: New Book Shows Parents and Students are Choosing Diversity When Enrolling in Charter Schools
April 5, 2019
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CAPITAL IDEAS: What Executives in High-Demand Industries are Saying About Moving to California
March 19, 2018
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Capital Ideas: Lots Of Reasons To Celebrate National School Choice Week
January 24, 2017
#ChartersWork School Profile: Renaissance Arts Academy
June 24, 2016
Not As Good As You Think: New Jersey
February 1, 2016
Rebecca Friedrichs: Challenging Compulsory Union Dues and Standing Up for Freedom
January 6, 2016
Not As Good As You Think: Colorado
September 23, 2015
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Impact Magazine — Summer 2015
August 10, 2015
Moonshots in Education
May 19, 2015
Not as Good as You Think: Michigan
March 18, 2015
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Short-Circuited: The Challenge Facing the Online Learning Revolution in California
November 16, 2014
Not as Good as You Think
May 14, 2014
Co-Sponsored Study Says Common Core National Education Standards are Expensive and Undermine State and Local Control
September 16, 2013
Educational Impact of the Khan Academy and Provides Recommendations for Greater Adoption in California
January 29, 2013
Next-Gen Education
January 9, 2013
Obama’s Education Takeover
February 17, 2012
Short-Circuited: The Challenges Facing the Online Learning Revolution in California
December 13, 2011
NEW BOOK! Short-Circuited: The Challenges Facing the Online Learning Revolution in California
January 24, 2011
Lessons for California from National School Choice Week
January 18, 2011
Demography Is Still Not Destiny
November 29, 2010
Lessons from Florida for California’s New Legislators
November 10, 2010
Back Stories to Waiting for Superman
October 6, 2010
New Study Finds GI Junior Scholarships Would Expand Education Options for CA Military Children
September 21, 2010
Back-to-School Lessons from LAUSD
September 8, 2010
Fostering Opportunity and Improving Achievement: The Benefits of a Foster-Care Scholarship Program in California
June 30, 2010
Fair to Middling: A National Standards Progress Report
April 2, 2010
Why Race to the Middle?
February 23, 2010
Why Race to the Middle?
February 23, 2010
New Study Finds that Medicare Advantage Relieves the “Hidden Tax” On Privately Insured Americans
December 16, 2009
Still Not As Good As You Think: 2009 Update on Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice
December 10, 2009
Not As Safe As You Think
October 20, 2009
Choice Could Help Children “Write Their Own Destiny”
September 16, 2009
Will “Race to the Top” Money Talk Loud Enough to Drown Out Union Complaints?
August 19, 2009
Down but Not Out in D.C.: Bi-Partisan, Bi-Cameral Efforts to Continue the Opportunity Scholarship Program
August 13, 2009
Politicians’ Broken Promises Shatter Hopes for DC Families
July 22, 2009
Citizen’s Guide to California Public School Finance
March 31, 2009
Choice and Good Schools—Swedish Style
October 19, 2008
Do the Math – Or Let Parents Pick a School That Will
September 10, 2008
Court Re-Connects with Reality in Homeschool Reversal
August 27, 2008
Demography Is Not Destiny: Reform Lessons from Florida on Overcoming Achievement Gaps
August 7, 2008
The High Price of Failure in California: How Inadequate Education Costs Schools, Students, and Society
July 21, 2008
How California Can Graduate More Students: The Arizona Example
June 18, 2008
The “Title Nining” of Academic Science
June 3, 2008
English Immersion or Law Evasion?
June 2, 2008
10 Years After Prop. 227: Bilingual Education Still Hanging On
June 2, 2008
National Report Card Confirms That Most California Kids Still Can’t Write
April 16, 2008
More Scrutiny for CIRM and Big-Government Health Care
March 31, 2008
Court Out of Touch with Reality in Homeschool Decision
March 19, 2008
Need Deficit Solutions? Think School Choices
January 16, 2008

California

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Gas Warfare in California
November 21, 2024
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Spending Watch

While National Economic Performance Has Supported State Revenue Growth, Greater Spending Restraint Is Still Required
November 12, 2024
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Spending Watch

The Governor’s Special Session Will Worsen Gasoline Affordability
September 24, 2024
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CAPITAL IDEAS – Dim View: New PRI Poll Shows Just 4 out of 10 Voters Rate their Local School Boards Positively
September 3, 2024
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Spending Watch

California’s Expensive but Ineffective Income Support Spending
August 27, 2024
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New PRI ‘Left Coast Survivor’s Guide’ Aims to Help Americans Stop ‘The California Way’ From Spreading Coast to Coast
August 20, 2024
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Undermines the Social Responsibility of Businesses and Investment Managers
August 12, 2024
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CAPITAL IDEAS: A Bad Idea for California’s Housing Woes: Commandeering Your Spare Bedroom
July 8, 2024
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Spending Watch

Californians Have Little to Show for All That Government Spending
July 2, 2024
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Sacramento Wants to ‘CLEAR’ Out Private Sector Convenience for Millions of Travelers
May 20, 2024
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CAPITAL IDEAS: A 2024 Healthcare Reform Agenda for Achieving Affordable, Accessible, High Quality Care
December 4, 2023
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Autonomous Vehicles Continue to Drive in California Fast Lane Despite Union Opposition
October 18, 2023
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Here’s Not How to End the Hollywood Strikes: Granting Unemployment to Strikers
September 11, 2023
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The Fentanyl Resurgimiento— A Drug Like No Other
June 14, 2023
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NEW PRI REPORT FINDS

State Will Fall 21.1 Percent Short of Power Needed to Meet 2045 EV Mandate
June 8, 2023
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New PRI Book Release

State Planners Focus Too Much on Social Engineering Rather Than Transportation Engineering
May 24, 2023
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CAPITAL IDEAS: California Diesel Ban: Another Uneconomical Mandate
May 8, 2023
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CAPITAL IDEAS–California’s Green Energy Transition: Is the State Getting Ahead of Itself?
March 17, 2023
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New PRI Report Shows State Experiencing ‘Mass Victimization’ After Decade of Sweeping Criminal Justice Policy Changes
February 7, 2023
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CAPITAL IDEAS: The ‘Nuclear Option’ To Get Rid of Cars
October 17, 2022
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CAPITAL IDEAS—Not April Fool’s Day: Newsom Gets Education Award as California Students Suffer and Fail
August 24, 2022
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NEW STUDY: Despite Billions Spent, Project Homekey Providing No Way Home for State’s Homeless
July 21, 2022
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CAPITAL IDEAS: New Lithium Tax Latest Battle in California’s War on Cars
July 21, 2022
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CAPITAL IDEAS: When June Gloom Lasts All Year
June 20, 2022
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CAPITAL IDEAS: The 2022 Education Landscape and the Coming Homeschool Tsunami
April 11, 2022
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California Should Embrace Nuclear in Race to Meet All Renewables Mandate
February 28, 2022
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New Report Shows How “CEQA Gauntlet” Hinders Housing, School, Infrastructure, Climate Projects
February 27, 2022
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NEW STUDY: Rejecting Push to Restrict Gig Entrepreneurship Key to Driving Innovation, Economic Growth, Higher Incomes
February 17, 2022
NEW STUDY: Bad Policy Choices Zap Californians with $1450 Average Electricity Bills
February 2, 2022
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California Not Meeting Emission Reduction Goals by Doubling Down on Policy Mistakes
January 13, 2022
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NEW STUDY: Government Fees ‘Nickel and Dime’ Californians Out of Hundreds of Dollars Per Year
December 9, 2021
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November 16, 2021
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New study analyzes how federal relief efforts impact small business, innovation amid Covid pandemic
November 11, 2021
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NEW STUDY: Harmful Policy Choices Driving Employers, Every Age Group and Income Level Away from California
September 23, 2021
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CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Slow-Built Rail
August 31, 2021
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CAPITAL IDEAS: More of California’s Big Cities on the Way to Becoming Next Detroit
July 23, 2021
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Is This How California is Solving Its Housing Crisis?
June 17, 2021
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CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Past, Even if Not Perfect, Set Up Its Prosperous Future
May 12, 2021
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CAPITAL IDEAS – The Road to Reopening: Where we are and where we need to go to open up our schools and meet the needs of children
March 16, 2021
CAPITAL IDEAS: Is California’s Economy on the Brink Due to Climate Change?
January 28, 2021
CAPITAL IDEAS: The War on Plastics: The Narrative Must Be Fed
October 12, 2020
CAPITAL IDEAS – Defending Equity: Newsom Defunds Students So Students Sue
August 20, 2020
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New Brief Shows Impact of California’s Surprise Medical Billing Law: Lower Quality Care, Reduced Access, Higher System Costs
August 19, 2020
CAPITAL IDEAS: Defund AB5 Enforcement
July 6, 2020
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NEW STUDY: Californians Could Save More Than $2,000 Annually if Lawmakers Enacted Free-Market Energy Policies
May 13, 2020
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CAPITAL IDEAS: The Old City Dumps Aren’t What They Used To Be
December 12, 2019
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CAPITAL IDEAS – California’s Blackouts: How Did We Get Here and What Can We Do to Keep the Lights On?
November 7, 2019
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NEW STUDY finds Overregulation Hurts Immigrant and Low-Income Entrepreneurs Trying to Achieve the American Dream
October 30, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Electric Car Future to Nowhere
October 1, 2019
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ISSUE BRIEF: Damon Dunn Shares Stories from His Rise from Poverty, Makes the Case for Why Socialism Doesn’t Work
September 4, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: The Ugly Side of the Pursuit for ‘Sustainability’
August 28, 2019
NEW STUDY: State and Local Tax Deduction “Makes it Rain” in California, Paid for by Taxpayers in Low Tax States
August 15, 2019
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Colorado Low Emission Vehicle Standard Would Increase Energy Poverty Without Major Emission Reductions
July 22, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: California Fun For A Few, A Hardship For Many
July 18, 2019
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Lease-Purchase Model May Provide Solution for Home Affordability Problem
June 20, 2019
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NEW STUDY: Free-Market Reforms, Private Charities Key to Addressing San Francisco’s Growing Homeless Crisis
June 19, 2019
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Cracking Down on Fracking in California—Is it The Smart Thing to Do?
May 15, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: Don’t Confuse Private Prisons with The Bastille
April 18, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Plastic Police Always on The Job
March 25, 2019
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CAPITAL IDEAS – CEQA: How To Mend It Since You Can’t End It
February 20, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Recent History of Manipulative Taxation
January 16, 2019
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New Study Shows California/New York Approach to Fighting Global Warming Hurts Working Class and Minority Communities
December 5, 2018
CAPITAL IDEAS: California Ranked Last Again – Do Lawmakers Even Care?
November 6, 2018
CAPITAL IDEAS: California Plays Fast and Loose with Food Stamp Work Requirements
September 20, 2018
New PRI Chartbook Shows California’s Public Pension Monster Has Grown to Nearly $1 Trillion
September 5, 2018
CAPITAL IDEAS: Is Blue State California’s Agenda America’s Future?
August 30, 2018
CAPITAL IDEAS: More Competition Will Help Consumers Needing Quick Cash
August 14, 2018
CAPITAL IDEAS – Choice Robbers: California Nannies Won’t Give Up
July 26, 2018
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CAPITAL IDEAS: A Futuristic and Cheaper Alternative to High-Speed Rail
June 27, 2018
CAPITAL IDEAS: Will We Ever Build More Water Storage in California?
April 10, 2018
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CAPITAL IDEAS: What Executives in High-Demand Industries are Saying About Moving to California
March 19, 2018
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New PRI Survey: Housing, Education, Business Climate Top Reasons Why Industries Aren’t Moving to California
February 28, 2018
CAPITAL IDEAS: Governor Brown Ignores State’s Poverty Crisis
February 7, 2018
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CAPITAL IDEAS:The Next Step on the Slippery Slope Toward Single-Payer in California
January 17, 2018
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New Issue Brief: State Anti-Poverty Programs Are Well-Intended, Yet Not Very Successful in Reducing Poverty
January 8, 2018
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Court Should Pave Way for State to Plan for Next Drought
December 17, 2017
Government Policy, Not Hurricanes, Main Contributor to High California Gas Prices
October 6, 2017
CAPITAL IDEAS: Embracing A New California Vision That Isn’t So New
August 29, 2017
CAPITAL IDEAS: Thriving Middle Class Essential to California Comeback
August 14, 2017
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Brown Plays on World Stage While Ignoring State’s Many Other Challenges
July 20, 2017
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NEW STUDY: Californians Would Pay $1.9 Billion More For Insurance If Congress Passes Border Adjustment Tax
July 12, 2017
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Majority Party’s War on Trump Is Really War on California’s Middle Class
June 20, 2017
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New PRI Issue Brief Finds Government Policies Have Strangled State’s Housing Market, Made Housing Unaffordable
June 14, 2017
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Time for Return to Reasonableness in Federal Land Grabs
May 22, 2017
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Will Largest Gas Tax Increase In State History Bring Traffic Relief?
April 26, 2017
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March 28, 2017
CAPITAL IDEAS: Rent Control Would Put Housing Out of Reach for More Californians
March 24, 2017
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ISSUE BRIEF: Oregon Proposal To Regulate Excess Costs Is Price Controls By Another Name
March 1, 2017
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Latest California Climate Change Plan Doubles Down On Job-Killing Policies
February 21, 2017
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Beyond The New Normal – Part 2: Accounting For Government
February 3, 2017
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Capital Ideas: Lots Of Reasons To Celebrate National School Choice Week
January 24, 2017
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Beyond the New Normal – New Study: Slow Economic Growth Is Not “The New Normal” For U.S. Economy
January 18, 2017
Beyond the New Normal – New Study: Slow Economic Growth Is Not “The New Normal” For U.S. Economy
January 18, 2017
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Different Thinking Needed to Meet Demand of California’s Clean Energy Future
January 10, 2017
CAPITAL IDEAS:Public Employee Unions Must Accept Reality on State Pensions, Work Toward Reform
November 15, 2016
New PRI Study Finds Clean Power Plan Will Raise Electricity Costs, Worsen Problem Of Energy Poverty
October 28, 2016
CAPITAL IDEAS: State Shouldn’t Export “Only in California” Bad Laws
October 25, 2016
CAPITAL IDEAS: Climate Change Bill Will Cost California Hundreds of Millions
September 20, 2016
CAPITAL IDEAS: Reforming California’s Environmental Policies
August 17, 2016
CAPITAL IDEAS: California Following Dangerous Energy Path
July 22, 2016
CAPITAL IDEAS: Cal Exodus
June 27, 2016
Readings from the PRI Water Conference
June 20, 2016
CAPITAL IDEAS: Minimizing the Economic Costs from California’s Drought
May 6, 2016
California Pension Crisis
January 8, 2016
Rebecca Friedrichs: Challenging Compulsory Union Dues and Standing Up for Freedom
January 6, 2016
CAPITAL IDEAS: Teacher Shortages, Union Contracts and the Supreme Court
November 12, 2015
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August 10, 2015
PRI’s California Prosperity Agenda
May 26, 2015
The Seven Lean Years: The Economic and Fiscal Consequences from California’s Prop. 30
November 17, 2014
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Short-Circuited: The Challenge Facing the Online Learning Revolution in California
November 16, 2014
Plan Bay Area: The Mayor’s Transportation Task Force Report
October 21, 2014
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Going Broke One City at a Time: Municipal Bankruptcies in America
January 10, 2014
California’s Efficient Energy: Doing More Harm than Good?
November 12, 2013
Co-Sponsored Study Says Common Core National Education Standards are Expensive and Undermine State and Local Control
September 16, 2013
New Pacific Research Institute Study Finds that “Plan Bay Area” Will Drive Housing Prices Higher, Intensify Traffic, and Increase Air Pollution
June 25, 2013
2013 Supplement to the 2011 Environmental Almanac
April 16, 2013
New Analysis of Orange County Toll Roads
April 9, 2013
Municipal Bankruptcy: An Overview for Local Officials
April 5, 2013
Myths and Realities of Obamacare
March 21, 2013
New Report Provides Recommendations to Improve CA’s Agriculture Industry
February 7, 2013
Educational Impact of the Khan Academy and Provides Recommendations for Greater Adoption in California
January 29, 2013
California’s 33% Renewable Portfolio Standard Will Raise Power Rates by 13 Percent
January 22, 2013
Corporate Income Tax Elasticity: How Republicans Can Have Lower Tax Rates and Democrats Can Collect More Tax Revenue!
December 12, 2012
Deep Reform, Not Window Dressing, for a Cooler, Cleaner California
December 9, 2012
The Crusade Against Plastic Bags
November 30, 2012
New Report on Controlling Rising Government Compensation Costs
November 5, 2012
Skin in the Game: Governor Brown is Right and Secretary Sebelius Is Wrong About Medicaid Co-Pays
April 3, 2012
New Book by Art Laffer on How to Fix California
March 21, 2012
Short-Circuited: The Challenges Facing the Online Learning Revolution in California
December 13, 2011
It’s Time to Neuter California’s Legislature
July 19, 2011
Lesson for California: Washington State’s Bipartisan Medicaid Reform Will Benefit Taxpayers and Patients
June 29, 2011
Brown Busts the Budget
June 22, 2011
A Case for Affirmative Disclosure of Public Pensions
June 15, 2011
Why Medicaid Should Be Easier to Fix than Entitlement Programs
June 1, 2011
California’s Cover Story
May 11, 2011
Card-Check Tricks in the Capitol
April 20, 2011
Recession and Recovery in California
April 12, 2011
Bringing More Sunshine to California
March 16, 2011
Analyze This: Unelected Regulatory Zealots Don’t Need More Power
March 2, 2011
Redevelopment is Redistribution
February 16, 2011
NEW BOOK! Short-Circuited: The Challenges Facing the Online Learning Revolution in California
January 24, 2011
In the Nick of Time: Rhode Island’s Medicaid Waiver Shows How States Can Save Their Budgets from Obamacare’s Assault
January 18, 2011
Medi-Cal Long-Term Care: Safety Net or Hammock?
January 5, 2011
Medi-Cal Long-Term Care
January 4, 2011
California Tax Facts 2011
October 19, 2010
No Bang for the Taxpayer’s Buck: Why California Must Reform Spending and Trim Government
October 13, 2010
PRI Study: Californians Deserve Better Value for Tax Dollars
October 13, 2010
Can We Fix the California Crackup?
October 13, 2010
Does California’s Budget Crisis Discriminate Against Women?
September 29, 2010
Governor Schwarzenegger: Don’t Build This Wall!
September 22, 2010
Should The State Decide How Many Nurses a Hospital Must Hire?
June 30, 2010
Government by State Employees is Not Government by the People
June 16, 2010
Taxifornia by Jason Clemens
June 15, 2010
State IT Plan Should Help Silicon Valley and Respect Taxpayers
May 19, 2010
Honest Talk About California’s Uninsured
April 28, 2010
California’s State IT Overhaul Plan Lacks Critical Safeguards for Taxpayers and Transparency, Concludes New PRI Study
April 27, 2010
California Disconnect
April 27, 2010
Taxifornia
April 15, 2010
California Ranks Last in Combination Measure of Tax Burden and Tax Structure
April 15, 2010
Repeal and Replace, But With What?
April 12, 2010
Double Jeopardy? Californians Are Already Protected from Health Insurance Cancellations
March 31, 2010
What the Congressional Budget Office Doesn’t Score: More Than $6.5 Billion Annual State Revenue at Risk from Federal Health “Reform”
March 23, 2010
Sacramento takes aim at free parking
February 26, 2010
The War Against Free Parking
February 17, 2010
California’s Corporate Exodus
January 27, 2010
California State News and Investigative Reporting Website
January 6, 2010
Plunder! Dissects Government Unions
December 10, 2009
Why California’s “Two-Plan” Does Not Support the “Public Option”
November 4, 2009
California and Canada Provide Guidance on Card-Check Legislation
October 29, 2009
California’s E-Waste Waste
October 7, 2009
Is San Francisco’s “Open Season” on Data a Model for State Government?
September 2, 2009
Why the Silver State Mines the Golden State for Business
August 26, 2009
Assessing the State of the Golden State
August 18, 2009
Governor Schwarzenegger Misunderstands California’s Lessons for Federal Health Reform
August 12, 2009
Americans Beware: “Healthy” San Francisco’s Tax Hikes May Be Coming Your Way
July 15, 2009
Time to Sunset California’s “Relic” Stem Cell Institute
July 1, 2009
Is the CIRM Good Medicine for California?
May 6, 2009
Nanny Government Plays from the Rough
May 5, 2009
Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2009 Report
April 16, 2009
New Report Touts Benefits of Economic Freedom
January 7, 2009
The Sizzle of Economic Freedom: How Economic Freedom Helps You and Why You Should Demand More
January 7, 2009
Election 2008: An Unhealthy Outcome
November 12, 2008
Governor Arnold’s Regendering Plan
November 4, 2008
Presidential Prescriptions: Diagnosing the Candidates’ Health Reforms
October 7, 2008
How Water, Oil, and Government Mix in California
August 19, 2008
Letter to Senators Feinstein and Boxer regarding (S. Amdt. 4983) amendment to H.R. 3221
June 27, 2008
10 Years After Prop. 227: Bilingual Education Still Hanging On
June 2, 2008
Burdening Foundations: Economic Costs of Assembly Bill 624
June 1, 2008
Ending the Revenue Rollercoaster – The Benefits of a Three Percent Flat Income Tax for California
May 13, 2008
PRI Introduces a 3% Flat Income Tax Rate Plan for Californians
May 6, 2008
California Can Learn Health Care Lessons From Down Under
April 30, 2008
National Report Card Confirms That Most California Kids Still Can’t Write
April 16, 2008
More Scrutiny for CIRM and Big-Government Health Care
March 31, 2008
California Health Care Deforminator Model ABX1 1: A Requiem
March 13, 2008
What Now for California Health Care?
February 13, 2008
New PRI Report Exposes True Cost of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Health Care Proposal
January 22, 2008

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NEW BRIEF: CalPERS’ Political Agenda Puts Taxpayers and Retirees at Risk with Low Returns, Higher Unfunded Liabilities
September 4, 2024

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Policy Brief: The impact of California’s Proposition 12 in increasing national production costs and food prices
December 13, 2023
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NEW PRI REPORT FINDS

State Will Fall 21.1 Percent Short of Power Needed to Meet 2045 EV Mandate
June 8, 2023
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CAPITAL IDEAS: California Diesel Ban: Another Uneconomical Mandate
May 8, 2023
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CAPITAL IDEAS: The ‘Nuclear Option’ To Get Rid of Cars
October 17, 2022
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October 6, 2022
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CAPITAL IDEAS: When June Gloom Lasts All Year
June 20, 2022
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NEW BRIEF: City and State Climate Change Lawsuits Drive Up Gas Prices, Discourage Clean Energy Innovation
May 16, 2022
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NEW STUDY: Competitive Markets Reduce Electricity Costs, Improve Reliability, Lower Emissions
March 28, 2022
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California Should Embrace Nuclear in Race to Meet All Renewables Mandate
February 28, 2022
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New Report Shows How “CEQA Gauntlet” Hinders Housing, School, Infrastructure, Climate Projects
February 27, 2022
NEW STUDY: Bad Policy Choices Zap Californians with $1450 Average Electricity Bills
February 2, 2022
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California Not Meeting Emission Reduction Goals by Doubling Down on Policy Mistakes
January 13, 2022
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CAPITAL IDEAS: California Gets Kicked by Drought 66
November 16, 2021
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PRI Launches “Electricity Reality Report” Website to Make Case for Increased Energy Competition
June 1, 2021
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CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Past, Even if Not Perfect, Set Up Its Prosperous Future
May 12, 2021
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In New Book, Veteran Journalist Shows How to End California’s Water Wars, Protect Habitats and Meet State’s Water Needs
October 19, 2020
CAPITAL IDEAS: The War on Plastics: The Narrative Must Be Fed
October 12, 2020
PRI Comments on Pending Department of Labor Regulations on Proxy Measures, ESG
September 29, 2020
CAPITAL IDEAS – Suing Oil Companies: It’s Not About the Environment
June 11, 2020
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NEW STUDY: Californians Could Save More Than $2,000 Annually if Lawmakers Enacted Free-Market Energy Policies
May 13, 2020
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CAPITAL IDEAS – California’s Blackouts: How Did We Get Here and What Can We Do to Keep the Lights On?
November 7, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Electric Car Future to Nowhere
October 1, 2019
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Colorado Low Emission Vehicle Standard Would Increase Energy Poverty Without Major Emission Reductions
July 22, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: California Fun For A Few, A Hardship For Many
July 18, 2019
Issue Brief: Dishonest Propaganda Sprouts from Organic Agriculture
June 4, 2019
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Cracking Down on Fracking in California—Is it The Smart Thing to Do?
May 15, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: The Ripple Effects of Scientific Illiteracy Can Have Dire Consequences
February 6, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Recent History of Manipulative Taxation
January 16, 2019
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New Study Shows California/New York Approach to Fighting Global Warming Hurts Working Class and Minority Communities
December 5, 2018
Dr. Henry Miller Publishes New Federalist Society White Paper on Regulation of Food & Ag Biotech
September 28, 2018
CAPITAL IDEAS – Choice Robbers: California Nannies Won’t Give Up
July 26, 2018
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CAPITAL IDEAS: A Futuristic and Cheaper Alternative to High-Speed Rail
June 27, 2018
CAPITAL IDEAS: Will We Ever Build More Water Storage in California?
April 10, 2018
Recent Writings on California’s Water Future
March 6, 2018
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New PRI Survey: Housing, Education, Business Climate Top Reasons Why Industries Aren’t Moving to California
February 28, 2018
Government Electric Car Subsidies Are ‘Costly Subsidies for the Rich’, Finds New Study
February 12, 2018
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Court Should Pave Way for State to Plan for Next Drought
December 17, 2017
Government Policy, Not Hurricanes, Main Contributor to High California Gas Prices
October 6, 2017
CAPITAL IDEAS: Embracing A New California Vision That Isn’t So New
August 29, 2017
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New PRI Issue Brief Finds Government Policies Have Strangled State’s Housing Market, Made Housing Unaffordable
June 14, 2017
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Will Largest Gas Tax Increase In State History Bring Traffic Relief?
April 26, 2017
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Latest California Climate Change Plan Doubles Down On Job-Killing Policies
February 21, 2017
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Different Thinking Needed to Meet Demand of California’s Clean Energy Future
January 10, 2017
New PRI Study Finds Clean Power Plan Will Raise Electricity Costs, Worsen Problem Of Energy Poverty
October 28, 2016
CAPITAL IDEAS: Reforming California’s Environmental Policies
August 17, 2016
Readings from the PRI Water Conference
June 20, 2016
CAPITAL IDEAS: Market-Driven Solutions to Relieve Drought
May 13, 2016
Regulating the Upstream Energy Industry: Getting the Balance Right
May 12, 2016
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August 10, 2015
PRI’s California Prosperity Agenda
May 26, 2015
The Regressive Impact on Ohio’s Families from EPA’s Proposed Regulations
December 10, 2014
Quarterly Impact 2014: PRI on the Environment
December 4, 2014
Plan Bay Area: The Mayor’s Transportation Task Force Report
October 21, 2014
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50 State Index Of Energy Regulation
August 7, 2014
California’s Efficient Energy: Doing More Harm than Good?
November 12, 2013
Obama’s Green Team
June 7, 2013
2013 Supplement to the 2011 Environmental Almanac
April 16, 2013
New Report Provides Recommendations to Improve CA’s Agriculture Industry
February 7, 2013
Next-Gen Education
January 9, 2013
Deep Reform, Not Window Dressing, for a Cooler, Cleaner California
December 9, 2012
The Crusade Against Plastic Bags
November 30, 2012
Feed the Beast: Renewing the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA)
March 1, 2012
Health Insurance Exchanges: What If They Issued 347 Pages of Regulations and Nobody Cared?
July 19, 2011
Has the Fight Against Obamacare Morphed into a Fight Against Government-Run Health Care?
March 9, 2011
Car-tastrophe: How federal policy can help, not hinder, the greening of the automobile
February 14, 2011
Demography Is Still Not Destiny
November 29, 2010
Lessons from Florida for California’s New Legislators
November 10, 2010
Is Your Food Making the Planet Sick?
November 2, 2010
The Prospective Effects of Proposition 23 on Employment in California
October 4, 2010
Should The State Decide How Many Nurses a Hospital Must Hire?
June 30, 2010
The Federal Government Can Never “Fix” the “Doc Fix”
June 8, 2010
The Rich Get Richer: The Senate’s Medicaid Proposal Gives a Bigger Bailout to Wealthier States
January 21, 2010
Plunder! Dissects Government Unions
December 10, 2009
The Way in Which We Produce Our Food
November 17, 2009
California and Canada Provide Guidance on Card-Check Legislation
October 29, 2009
Pacific Research Institute Releases New Study on California’s E-Waste Waste
October 7, 2009
Big Brother Wants Your Compost – Or Else
September 17, 2009
Climate Modeling is Far From a Precise Science
August 18, 2009
Testimony of John R. Graham, Director of Health Care Studies, Pacific Research Institute to Arizona House Health & Human Services
May 26, 2009
Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2009 Report
April 16, 2009
Go with the Flow: Why water markets can solve California’s water crisis
December 2, 2008
How Water, Oil, and Government Mix in California
August 19, 2008
Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2008 Report
April 9, 2008

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Reforms to Increase Affordability, Homebuilding Would Go Far to Alleviate State’s Housing, Homeless Crises
January 31, 2024
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Latin America’s Experience Shows How Markets Can Help Urban America Overcome Government-Created Problems
November 13, 2023
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NEW FREE CITIES REPORT

New ‘Free Cities Index’ Ranks America’s Best and Worst Pro-Growth Cities
September 5, 2023
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State Planners Focus Too Much on Social Engineering Rather Than Transportation Engineering
May 24, 2023
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Cities Can Save Money, Improve Services, Boost Economic Opportunity By Embracing Private Sector, Finds New PRI Book
February 16, 2023
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NEW BOOK RELEASE – Back from Dystopia: A New Vision for Western Cities
September 27, 2022
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In New Book, Veteran Journalist Shows How to End California’s Water Wars, Protect Habitats and Meet State’s Water Needs
October 19, 2020
CAPITAL IDEAS: Will We Ever Build More Water Storage in California?
April 10, 2018
Recent Writings on California’s Water Future
March 6, 2018
CAPITAL IDEAS: Governor Brown Ignores State’s Poverty Crisis
February 7, 2018
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New Issue Brief: State Anti-Poverty Programs Are Well-Intended, Yet Not Very Successful in Reducing Poverty
January 8, 2018
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June 14, 2017
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