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Business & Economics
Rose D. Friedman (1911 – 2009)
She was lucid and lively as ever at our Friedman Legacy event on July 31, but now Rose Friedman, a champion of liberty, has passed away at the grand age of 97. She was dearly beloved at PRI along with her husband Milton, who passed away in November of 2006, ...
Business & Economics
California Ranks 48th Worst State in Labor Performance
550 people leave state each day San Francisco, August 18, 2009 – The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, found that California’s labor performance over the last five years is among the worst performing in the nation, ranking 48th and besting only Michigan and Mississippi. ...
Environment
Goals of bill to reduce carbon dioxide emissions impractical
The primary goal of cap-and-trade legislation is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. It’s really that simple. But, as someone once said, the devil is in the details. And, that saying holds true for cap and trade, too. Steven Hayward, a Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, put pencil to paper ...
Commentary
What Do School Tests Measure?
The New York Times, August 4, 2009 According to a New York Times analysis, New York City students have steadily improved their performance on statewide tests since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took control of the public schools seven years ago. While statewide passing rates on the tests have risen in every ...
Health Care
ABC 20/20 Takes on Health Care Reform
Government-run healthcare may mean waiting in line for care. John Stossel looks at government-run healthcare in Canada. He interviews PRI’s Sally C. Pipes regarding the proposed legislation currently in Congress and its consequences.
Commentary
Costs of Medicare/Medicaid Have Outpaced Other Health Costs by 1/3 Since 1970
Ezra Klein has posted a blog criticizing the claim (made by Bill Kristol on the Daily Show Monday night) that the costs of government-run health care have greatly outpaced other health costs. But Klein is mistaken. Advocates of ObamaCare like to rely on studies comparing the cost-increases of government-run care ...
Commentary
Press Coverage on the Congressional Health Care Reform Debate
Sally C. Pipes, Jeffrey H. Anderson, and John R. Graham have been leading voices in oppositon to the government health care plan proposed in Congress this month. Click picture below to view TV interviews, opinion pieces, and media coverage of this important topic. Click here to see PRI’s press coverage ...
Business & Economics
Obama Misunderestimates Why He Won the Presidency
There are limits to what a great communicator can accomplish if he is communicating the wrong message. In the last few weeks, Barack Obama has been receiving a lesson in this truth and learning, perhaps, too, that he, in the words of his less audibly gifted predecessor, “misunderestimated” why he ...
Commentary
A long, hot August for Obama’s health plan
That big whoosh you hear is the air rushing out of President Obama’s PR blitzkrieg to hurry Congress into approving his nationalized health care reform proposal before leaving town next week for the annual August recess. Nearly two weeks’ worth of carefully orchestrated speeches and events was capped by a ...
Commentary
Did Obama Accomplish Anything With His Health-Care Presser?
As we predicted last night, the biggest news coming out of last night’s prime-time press conference was President Obama’s reaction to the professor Gates arrest. But, as little attention as it’s receiving, for the vast majority of the hour-long health-care presser, Obama was indeed talking about health care. Whether he ...
Rose D. Friedman (1911 – 2009)
She was lucid and lively as ever at our Friedman Legacy event on July 31, but now Rose Friedman, a champion of liberty, has passed away at the grand age of 97. She was dearly beloved at PRI along with her husband Milton, who passed away in November of 2006, ...
California Ranks 48th Worst State in Labor Performance
550 people leave state each day San Francisco, August 18, 2009 – The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, found that California’s labor performance over the last five years is among the worst performing in the nation, ranking 48th and besting only Michigan and Mississippi. ...
Goals of bill to reduce carbon dioxide emissions impractical
The primary goal of cap-and-trade legislation is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. It’s really that simple. But, as someone once said, the devil is in the details. And, that saying holds true for cap and trade, too. Steven Hayward, a Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, put pencil to paper ...
What Do School Tests Measure?
The New York Times, August 4, 2009 According to a New York Times analysis, New York City students have steadily improved their performance on statewide tests since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took control of the public schools seven years ago. While statewide passing rates on the tests have risen in every ...
ABC 20/20 Takes on Health Care Reform
Government-run healthcare may mean waiting in line for care. John Stossel looks at government-run healthcare in Canada. He interviews PRI’s Sally C. Pipes regarding the proposed legislation currently in Congress and its consequences.
Costs of Medicare/Medicaid Have Outpaced Other Health Costs by 1/3 Since 1970
Ezra Klein has posted a blog criticizing the claim (made by Bill Kristol on the Daily Show Monday night) that the costs of government-run health care have greatly outpaced other health costs. But Klein is mistaken. Advocates of ObamaCare like to rely on studies comparing the cost-increases of government-run care ...
Press Coverage on the Congressional Health Care Reform Debate
Sally C. Pipes, Jeffrey H. Anderson, and John R. Graham have been leading voices in oppositon to the government health care plan proposed in Congress this month. Click picture below to view TV interviews, opinion pieces, and media coverage of this important topic. Click here to see PRI’s press coverage ...
Obama Misunderestimates Why He Won the Presidency
There are limits to what a great communicator can accomplish if he is communicating the wrong message. In the last few weeks, Barack Obama has been receiving a lesson in this truth and learning, perhaps, too, that he, in the words of his less audibly gifted predecessor, “misunderestimated” why he ...
A long, hot August for Obama’s health plan
That big whoosh you hear is the air rushing out of President Obama’s PR blitzkrieg to hurry Congress into approving his nationalized health care reform proposal before leaving town next week for the annual August recess. Nearly two weeks’ worth of carefully orchestrated speeches and events was capped by a ...
Did Obama Accomplish Anything With His Health-Care Presser?
As we predicted last night, the biggest news coming out of last night’s prime-time press conference was President Obama’s reaction to the professor Gates arrest. But, as little attention as it’s receiving, for the vast majority of the hour-long health-care presser, Obama was indeed talking about health care. Whether he ...
