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Misguided State Policies Lead To More Companies Leaving California

This spring marks the first anniversary of the announcement that Carl’s Jr., a California burger icon for more than six decades, was relocating its headquarters to Nashville. It’s yet another business that has quit California in what was once an almost quiet exodus of companies but now looks more like ...
California

San Francisco’s Universal Health Care Plan Eyed As Model For California

SAN FRANCISCO — Maria Consuelo believes she’s alive today because of a groundbreaking program this left-leaning city created a decade ago – one that guarantees health coverage to every one of its 864,000 residents. It’s made San Francisco the only place in the country where truly universal health coverage exists, ...
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Will Largest Gas Tax Increase In State History Bring Traffic Relief?

It’s painfully obvious that lawmakers in Sacramento just can’t help themselves. Otherwise Gov. Jerry Brown and a majority of legislators wouldn’t support a $52 billion tax hike to fix Califor- nia’s gouged, pitted and cracked roads. They would find a way to do it with the resources they have. Republicans ...
California

Join PRI For A Panel Discussion On California’s Housing Crisis On April 11

Join PRI for a “California Ideas in Action” Panel Discussion Unaffordable: How Government Policy Has Shaped California’s Housing Crisis and What Can Be Done to Fix It Tuesday, April 11 10:30 am California State Capitol, Room 126 Sacramento Please RSVP to Tim Anaya at [email protected] Click here for a flyer ...
Business & Economics

CAPITAL IDEAS: Rent Control Would Put Housing Out of Reach for More Californians

Download the Brief Click here to watch PRI’s panel discussion on California’s housing crisis from the State Capitol in Sacramento. The most unaffordable city in the world in which to rent a home is not New York or Tokyo or Hong Kong. The title belongs to San Francisco, where a ...
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Rent Control Would Put Housing Out of Reach for More Californians

The most unaffordable city in the world in which to rent a home is not New York or Tokyo or Hong Kong. The title belongs to San Francisco, where a single person who wants to live on their own needs to earn more than $85,000 a year to pay the ...
California

Devin Nunes Has 5 Big Ideas To Fix California

There are 120 legislators and eight elected statewide officials in Sacramento, but maybe the most sensible elected official in California lives much of the time in Washington, D.C. Or at least the one who’s making the most sensible proposals. Rep. Devin Nunes, who represents California’s 22nd District in Congress, encouraged ...
California

California, Here We Go

Click here to read PRI’s issue brief on California’s housing crisis, Unaffordable. Click here to watch PRI’s panel discussion on California’s housing crisis from the State Capitol in Sacramento. Stories about the desperate living arrangements of highly compensated California tech workers sound like tales of Third World misery. One newspaper ...
Business & Economics

State Must Stop Unforced Errors To Attract New Manufacturing Jobs

California leads the nation in manufacturing jobs with nearly 1.3 million. But this doesn’t mean all’s well with manufacturing in the state. Job growth in the sector is miserable. We rank 24th in growth out of the 32 states that have more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs. Michigan leads the country ...
California

More Government Won’t Help Sacramento’s Homeless Get Back On Their Feet

Sacramento’s mayor thinks he’s hit on an answer to the city’s homeless problem. He wants to provide them with housing vouchers. Of course, he’s likely to find the result will be the exact opposite of the one he’s looking for. In downtown Sacramento alone, there are reported to be more ...
Business & Economics

Misguided State Policies Lead To More Companies Leaving California

This spring marks the first anniversary of the announcement that Carl’s Jr., a California burger icon for more than six decades, was relocating its headquarters to Nashville. It’s yet another business that has quit California in what was once an almost quiet exodus of companies but now looks more like ...
California

San Francisco’s Universal Health Care Plan Eyed As Model For California

SAN FRANCISCO — Maria Consuelo believes she’s alive today because of a groundbreaking program this left-leaning city created a decade ago – one that guarantees health coverage to every one of its 864,000 residents. It’s made San Francisco the only place in the country where truly universal health coverage exists, ...
Blog

Will Largest Gas Tax Increase In State History Bring Traffic Relief?

It’s painfully obvious that lawmakers in Sacramento just can’t help themselves. Otherwise Gov. Jerry Brown and a majority of legislators wouldn’t support a $52 billion tax hike to fix Califor- nia’s gouged, pitted and cracked roads. They would find a way to do it with the resources they have. Republicans ...
California

Join PRI For A Panel Discussion On California’s Housing Crisis On April 11

Join PRI for a “California Ideas in Action” Panel Discussion Unaffordable: How Government Policy Has Shaped California’s Housing Crisis and What Can Be Done to Fix It Tuesday, April 11 10:30 am California State Capitol, Room 126 Sacramento Please RSVP to Tim Anaya at [email protected] Click here for a flyer ...
Business & Economics

CAPITAL IDEAS: Rent Control Would Put Housing Out of Reach for More Californians

Download the Brief Click here to watch PRI’s panel discussion on California’s housing crisis from the State Capitol in Sacramento. The most unaffordable city in the world in which to rent a home is not New York or Tokyo or Hong Kong. The title belongs to San Francisco, where a ...
Blog

Rent Control Would Put Housing Out of Reach for More Californians

The most unaffordable city in the world in which to rent a home is not New York or Tokyo or Hong Kong. The title belongs to San Francisco, where a single person who wants to live on their own needs to earn more than $85,000 a year to pay the ...
California

Devin Nunes Has 5 Big Ideas To Fix California

There are 120 legislators and eight elected statewide officials in Sacramento, but maybe the most sensible elected official in California lives much of the time in Washington, D.C. Or at least the one who’s making the most sensible proposals. Rep. Devin Nunes, who represents California’s 22nd District in Congress, encouraged ...
California

California, Here We Go

Click here to read PRI’s issue brief on California’s housing crisis, Unaffordable. Click here to watch PRI’s panel discussion on California’s housing crisis from the State Capitol in Sacramento. Stories about the desperate living arrangements of highly compensated California tech workers sound like tales of Third World misery. One newspaper ...
Business & Economics

State Must Stop Unforced Errors To Attract New Manufacturing Jobs

California leads the nation in manufacturing jobs with nearly 1.3 million. But this doesn’t mean all’s well with manufacturing in the state. Job growth in the sector is miserable. We rank 24th in growth out of the 32 states that have more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs. Michigan leads the country ...
California

More Government Won’t Help Sacramento’s Homeless Get Back On Their Feet

Sacramento’s mayor thinks he’s hit on an answer to the city’s homeless problem. He wants to provide them with housing vouchers. Of course, he’s likely to find the result will be the exact opposite of the one he’s looking for. In downtown Sacramento alone, there are reported to be more ...
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