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Business & Economics
Tommy Few – A Front Row Seat in the Fight for Worker Freedom
Tommy Few talks about his legal efforts to fully secure the freedoms won by all public employees following the Janus decision. He shares his first-hand experience with how his local teachers unions is trying to preserve membership, and his legal battle to quit the union and keep more money in ...
Featured
Sally Pipes Talks Medicare-for-All with Mark Levin on Fox News
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss all things health care with Mark Levin on “Life, Liberty, and Levin” on Fox News Channel. They discuss Obamacare, the push for Medicare-for-All/single-payer health care in Congress ...
Commentary
US Congress mandates silliness, USDA complies
By Henry I. Miller and Drew L. Kershen An editorial, “Label without a cause[i],” on these pages almost five years ago was prescient. Its subtitle read, “Mandatory labeling of GM [genetically modified] food in the United States will not only make all food more costly but also bamboozle consumers.” Well, ...
Blog
What We’re Watching – Are The Rich Getting Richer and the Poor Getting Poorer?
Kerry Jackson – Inequality Myths Watch this great video from John Stossel explaining why the standard line of Bernie Sanders and his supporters about “the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer” simply isn’t true. In reality, nearly all Americans are getting richer.
California
Wayne Winegarden Responds to “LA Green New Deal” to Inside Sources
LA’s Own Green New Deal Requires Expensive Transportation Overhauls By Michael McGrady Following in the footsteps of New York City, the city of Los Angeles announced its own Green New Deal proposal to fight climate change. Dubbed the “pLAn” by Mayor Eric Garcetti, this proposal sets sustainability and environmental-friendliness requirements for virtually every aspect ...
California
PRI’s Kerry Jackson Discusses Styrofoam Container Bans on NPR’s Marketplace
Listen to Kerry Jackson, fellow with PRI’s Center for California Reform, discuss efforts in Maine, California, and other states to ban styrofoam containers on “Marketwatch” on National Public Radio.
Agriculture
The Brave Old World of Genetic Engineering
By Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D. and Rob Wager A Washington Post article, “The Future of Food,” discussed the methods we use to breed food crops but suffered from a shortcoming we see often: “pseudo-balance” — the seeking out of clueless commentators to contradict advocates of superior modern genetic modification ...
Featured
Sally Pipes – Medicare for All in the 2020 Campaign
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally Pipes joins us to discuss how Medicare for All is becoming a big issue in the 2020 presidential campaign, the growing push for Medicare for All in Congress and states like California and New York, and how ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Responds to $60 Trillion Cost Estimate for Medicare for All
Report: Medicare for All Would Cost $60 Trillion Over First Decade By Christopher Talgo A new report estimates a single-payer health care system in the United States would cost between $54.6 and $60.7 trillion over the first 10 years. Implementation of Medicare for All (M4A) would require enormous tax increases, ...
California
Sally Pipes in Sacramento Bee story on push to expand Medi-cal for the undocumented
Undocumented kids can get health care in California. Gavin Newsom wants it for young adults, too By Sophia Bollag . . . Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed expanding Medi-Cal to undocumented adults younger than 26. That would help young people like Lopez, who lost her eligibility this year when she turned ...
Tommy Few – A Front Row Seat in the Fight for Worker Freedom
Tommy Few talks about his legal efforts to fully secure the freedoms won by all public employees following the Janus decision. He shares his first-hand experience with how his local teachers unions is trying to preserve membership, and his legal battle to quit the union and keep more money in ...
Sally Pipes Talks Medicare-for-All with Mark Levin on Fox News
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss all things health care with Mark Levin on “Life, Liberty, and Levin” on Fox News Channel. They discuss Obamacare, the push for Medicare-for-All/single-payer health care in Congress ...
US Congress mandates silliness, USDA complies
By Henry I. Miller and Drew L. Kershen An editorial, “Label without a cause[i],” on these pages almost five years ago was prescient. Its subtitle read, “Mandatory labeling of GM [genetically modified] food in the United States will not only make all food more costly but also bamboozle consumers.” Well, ...
What We’re Watching – Are The Rich Getting Richer and the Poor Getting Poorer?
Kerry Jackson – Inequality Myths Watch this great video from John Stossel explaining why the standard line of Bernie Sanders and his supporters about “the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer” simply isn’t true. In reality, nearly all Americans are getting richer.
Wayne Winegarden Responds to “LA Green New Deal” to Inside Sources
LA’s Own Green New Deal Requires Expensive Transportation Overhauls By Michael McGrady Following in the footsteps of New York City, the city of Los Angeles announced its own Green New Deal proposal to fight climate change. Dubbed the “pLAn” by Mayor Eric Garcetti, this proposal sets sustainability and environmental-friendliness requirements for virtually every aspect ...
PRI’s Kerry Jackson Discusses Styrofoam Container Bans on NPR’s Marketplace
Listen to Kerry Jackson, fellow with PRI’s Center for California Reform, discuss efforts in Maine, California, and other states to ban styrofoam containers on “Marketwatch” on National Public Radio.
The Brave Old World of Genetic Engineering
By Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D. and Rob Wager A Washington Post article, “The Future of Food,” discussed the methods we use to breed food crops but suffered from a shortcoming we see often: “pseudo-balance” — the seeking out of clueless commentators to contradict advocates of superior modern genetic modification ...
Sally Pipes – Medicare for All in the 2020 Campaign
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally Pipes joins us to discuss how Medicare for All is becoming a big issue in the 2020 presidential campaign, the growing push for Medicare for All in Congress and states like California and New York, and how ...
Sally Pipes Responds to $60 Trillion Cost Estimate for Medicare for All
Report: Medicare for All Would Cost $60 Trillion Over First Decade By Christopher Talgo A new report estimates a single-payer health care system in the United States would cost between $54.6 and $60.7 trillion over the first 10 years. Implementation of Medicare for All (M4A) would require enormous tax increases, ...
Sally Pipes in Sacramento Bee story on push to expand Medi-cal for the undocumented
Undocumented kids can get health care in California. Gavin Newsom wants it for young adults, too By Sophia Bollag . . . Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed expanding Medi-Cal to undocumented adults younger than 26. That would help young people like Lopez, who lost her eligibility this year when she turned ...
