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Watch Kerry Jackson Discuss “California Craziness” on The Daily Ledger
Watch Kerry Jackson, fellow with PRI’s Center for California Reform, discuss “California Craziness” with host Graham Ledger on “The Daily Ledger” on One America News Network. Among the issues they discuss are a proposal to require community college to house homeless people at night at their on-campus parking lots, Gov. ...
Blog
Addressing Low Home Ownership Rates Key to Eliminating Inequality, Future Growth
There have decades of bipartisan rhetoric about the virtues of home ownership, with politicians competing with one another to see who can propose the worst ideas for responsible homeownership. Some policies, like preferential tax treatment and credit-enhancements offered through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) are distortionary but benign in their ...
Agriculture
Let It Flow: Carlsbad Desalination Plant Expansion Approval A Bright Spot In A Dry State
With more than 800 miles of coastline and a great big ocean out there, California shouldn’t be always be scrambling for water as if it were in the middle of the Sahara Desert. But politics tend to make goods scarce rather than plentiful. But sometimes there’s good news. Such as ...
Blog
On Gov. Newsom’s “Parents Agenda”
In 1987, it was the talk of the South Bay neighborhood where my parents lived: a tax rebate check of $236 from the state government for every household up and down the street. My mother was delighted. At the time, my sister was going to UCLA and living on campus, ...
Blog
The Suspense is Over: Taxpayers Facing Billions in New Spending Following Committee Verdict
Last week, hundreds of bills died a quiet death. The scene of the crime was not the Bates Motel, but rather 2 committee rooms at the State Capitol. And the murder weapon wasn’t a candlestick or other choices from the game of Clue. In fact, the bills were killed without ...
Commentary
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s public option amounts to single-payer in disguise
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is running for president. Thus far, his campaign has failed to catch on — he’s at 0.7 percent in the most recent RealClearPolitics average of Democratic primary polls. That may change, thanks to a bill he signed into law May 13 establishing the nation’s first public health insurance option. If ...
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What We’re Watching – May 17
Rowena Itchon – Is Universal Basic Income the Safety Net of the Future? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EefzHbTArtY Universal basic income is a topic that PRI has covered extensively, especially the proposal by Stockton Mayor Andrew Tubbs. Even some of the free-market side see basic income as a more efficient way to help those ...
California
The Perils of Regulating Drugs by Sound Bite
There is a legal adage that “hard cases make bad law.” California may soon rediscover this wisdom. Assembly member Jim Wood has introduced a bill (AB 824) with the intention of discouraging “pay-for-delay” tactics. “Pay-for-delay” practices refer to a situation when a manufacturer of a patented drug pays the manufacturer ...
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Workers Of California Unite . . . Against Minimum Wage Hikes
They were warned. They wouldn’t listen. But they should have. A university study confirms what so many of us already knew — and what several other studies have corroborated: Minimum wage hikes kill jobs. Scholars at the University of California, Riverside, looked at the labor market and found that job ...
Blog
CAPITAL IDEAS: Cracking Down on Fracking in California—Is it The Smart Thing to Do?
DOWNLOAD THE PDF Jerry Brown left office in January as one of the most popular governors in California history. He also left successor Gavin Newsom with a few headaches. Among the more prominent unresolved issues are the high-speed rail project, the housing and homeless crises, and runaway public-employee pension obligations. ...
Watch Kerry Jackson Discuss “California Craziness” on The Daily Ledger
Watch Kerry Jackson, fellow with PRI’s Center for California Reform, discuss “California Craziness” with host Graham Ledger on “The Daily Ledger” on One America News Network. Among the issues they discuss are a proposal to require community college to house homeless people at night at their on-campus parking lots, Gov. ...
Addressing Low Home Ownership Rates Key to Eliminating Inequality, Future Growth
There have decades of bipartisan rhetoric about the virtues of home ownership, with politicians competing with one another to see who can propose the worst ideas for responsible homeownership. Some policies, like preferential tax treatment and credit-enhancements offered through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) are distortionary but benign in their ...
Let It Flow: Carlsbad Desalination Plant Expansion Approval A Bright Spot In A Dry State
With more than 800 miles of coastline and a great big ocean out there, California shouldn’t be always be scrambling for water as if it were in the middle of the Sahara Desert. But politics tend to make goods scarce rather than plentiful. But sometimes there’s good news. Such as ...
On Gov. Newsom’s “Parents Agenda”
In 1987, it was the talk of the South Bay neighborhood where my parents lived: a tax rebate check of $236 from the state government for every household up and down the street. My mother was delighted. At the time, my sister was going to UCLA and living on campus, ...
The Suspense is Over: Taxpayers Facing Billions in New Spending Following Committee Verdict
Last week, hundreds of bills died a quiet death. The scene of the crime was not the Bates Motel, but rather 2 committee rooms at the State Capitol. And the murder weapon wasn’t a candlestick or other choices from the game of Clue. In fact, the bills were killed without ...
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s public option amounts to single-payer in disguise
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is running for president. Thus far, his campaign has failed to catch on — he’s at 0.7 percent in the most recent RealClearPolitics average of Democratic primary polls. That may change, thanks to a bill he signed into law May 13 establishing the nation’s first public health insurance option. If ...
What We’re Watching – May 17
Rowena Itchon – Is Universal Basic Income the Safety Net of the Future? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EefzHbTArtY Universal basic income is a topic that PRI has covered extensively, especially the proposal by Stockton Mayor Andrew Tubbs. Even some of the free-market side see basic income as a more efficient way to help those ...
The Perils of Regulating Drugs by Sound Bite
There is a legal adage that “hard cases make bad law.” California may soon rediscover this wisdom. Assembly member Jim Wood has introduced a bill (AB 824) with the intention of discouraging “pay-for-delay” tactics. “Pay-for-delay” practices refer to a situation when a manufacturer of a patented drug pays the manufacturer ...
Workers Of California Unite . . . Against Minimum Wage Hikes
They were warned. They wouldn’t listen. But they should have. A university study confirms what so many of us already knew — and what several other studies have corroborated: Minimum wage hikes kill jobs. Scholars at the University of California, Riverside, looked at the labor market and found that job ...
CAPITAL IDEAS: Cracking Down on Fracking in California—Is it The Smart Thing to Do?
DOWNLOAD THE PDF Jerry Brown left office in January as one of the most popular governors in California history. He also left successor Gavin Newsom with a few headaches. Among the more prominent unresolved issues are the high-speed rail project, the housing and homeless crises, and runaway public-employee pension obligations. ...
