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California Shows its Obamacare Support by Outspending U.S. 4-to-1 on Ads

By Ana B. Ibarra and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez The marketing blitz is on. Californians are getting barraged with online pop-up ads, radio spots and television commercials, all aimed at persuading them to sign up for Affordable Care Act health plans during this year’s open-enrollment season. Covered California, the state’s Obamacare ...
Health Care

Dr. Beth Haynes – How the Free Market Can Improve our Health Care

Dr. Beth Haynes of the Benjamin Rush Institute joins us to discuss how free-market solutions can improve people’s healthcare, the ongoing fights over Obamacare and single-payer health care, and the latest trends in health care today.
Blog

Some Help for Your Black Friday Shopping List

Rowena Itchon and Tim Anaya With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it’s time for a holiday tradition that most of us have a love-hate relationship with – holiday shopping. If you’re like us, you never know what to get the people on your shopping list.  We can always use some ...
Business & Economics

Lower mortgage interest tax break: “All-out assault” or glancing blow?

By Jeff Ostrowski If there’s one thing that’s certain to mobilize the nation’s largest trade group, it’s any talk of reining in tax breaks for homeowners with mortgages. House Republicans on Thursday passed a tax plan that caps at $500,000 the amount of debt eligible for the mortgage interest deduction. ...
Business & Economics

How the GOP Tax Plan Will Affect Small Business

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act aims to spur economic growth across the United States by adjusting tax structures for small businesses and corporations. Though the bill is still being debated, amended and adjusted, if it passes, it may have serious implications for you and your business. It can be ...
Business & Economics

Clark Judge – President Trump and his Communications Style

Clark Judge is the chairman of the Pacific Research Institute, founder of The White House Writers Group and a former Reagan speechwriter.  He joins us to discuss President Trump’s communications style, his effectiveness in advocating for his agenda, and lessons to be learned from the Gipper.
Business & Economics

Killing the gasoline-powered car in California? That’s what one legislator wants by 2040

A clean energy advocate in the California Legislature wants internal combustion vehicles to sputter out of existence on the state’s roads and highways. “The cars that we drive today are based on technology that’s 100 years old,” said Assembly member Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. “It’s almost like we’re doing addition ...
Business & Economics

David Crane – California’s Public Pension Crowd Out

David Crane of Govern for California and Stanford University talks about California’s public pension crisis, how more public money spent on pensions takes away funding for key state priorities, and how we can break through the logjam to enact meaningful pension reform.
Health Care

Flyover: How can we get everyone necessary health care?

PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy is a guest on Minnesota Public Radio’s Flyover Radio.  Host Kerri Miller discusses the issue: How can everyone get the necessary health care? Listen here
Business & Economics

Bartlett Cleland – Is California’s Innovation Luster Wearing Off?

Bartlett Cleland, PRI’s senior fellow in Tech and Innovation, talks with us about whether California’s innovation luster is wearing off, how poor government policy is impacting the sharing economy, autonomous vehicles, and innovation companies, and the future of artificial intelligence.
Health Care

California Shows its Obamacare Support by Outspending U.S. 4-to-1 on Ads

By Ana B. Ibarra and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez The marketing blitz is on. Californians are getting barraged with online pop-up ads, radio spots and television commercials, all aimed at persuading them to sign up for Affordable Care Act health plans during this year’s open-enrollment season. Covered California, the state’s Obamacare ...
Health Care

Dr. Beth Haynes – How the Free Market Can Improve our Health Care

Dr. Beth Haynes of the Benjamin Rush Institute joins us to discuss how free-market solutions can improve people’s healthcare, the ongoing fights over Obamacare and single-payer health care, and the latest trends in health care today.
Blog

Some Help for Your Black Friday Shopping List

Rowena Itchon and Tim Anaya With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it’s time for a holiday tradition that most of us have a love-hate relationship with – holiday shopping. If you’re like us, you never know what to get the people on your shopping list.  We can always use some ...
Business & Economics

Lower mortgage interest tax break: “All-out assault” or glancing blow?

By Jeff Ostrowski If there’s one thing that’s certain to mobilize the nation’s largest trade group, it’s any talk of reining in tax breaks for homeowners with mortgages. House Republicans on Thursday passed a tax plan that caps at $500,000 the amount of debt eligible for the mortgage interest deduction. ...
Business & Economics

How the GOP Tax Plan Will Affect Small Business

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act aims to spur economic growth across the United States by adjusting tax structures for small businesses and corporations. Though the bill is still being debated, amended and adjusted, if it passes, it may have serious implications for you and your business. It can be ...
Business & Economics

Clark Judge – President Trump and his Communications Style

Clark Judge is the chairman of the Pacific Research Institute, founder of The White House Writers Group and a former Reagan speechwriter.  He joins us to discuss President Trump’s communications style, his effectiveness in advocating for his agenda, and lessons to be learned from the Gipper.
Business & Economics

Killing the gasoline-powered car in California? That’s what one legislator wants by 2040

A clean energy advocate in the California Legislature wants internal combustion vehicles to sputter out of existence on the state’s roads and highways. “The cars that we drive today are based on technology that’s 100 years old,” said Assembly member Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. “It’s almost like we’re doing addition ...
Business & Economics

David Crane – California’s Public Pension Crowd Out

David Crane of Govern for California and Stanford University talks about California’s public pension crisis, how more public money spent on pensions takes away funding for key state priorities, and how we can break through the logjam to enact meaningful pension reform.
Health Care

Flyover: How can we get everyone necessary health care?

PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy is a guest on Minnesota Public Radio’s Flyover Radio.  Host Kerri Miller discusses the issue: How can everyone get the necessary health care? Listen here
Business & Economics

Bartlett Cleland – Is California’s Innovation Luster Wearing Off?

Bartlett Cleland, PRI’s senior fellow in Tech and Innovation, talks with us about whether California’s innovation luster is wearing off, how poor government policy is impacting the sharing economy, autonomous vehicles, and innovation companies, and the future of artificial intelligence.
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