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New Polling Shows Free Market Ideas Still Hold Sway in Liberal California

The first weeks of 2019 have been dominated by the push from emboldened Sacramento liberals to enact measures increasing our tax burden, imposing new regulations on employers, and taking away some of our personal freedom. Most observers argue, based on the massive 2018 Democrat victories, that voters were giving a ...
Commentary

Arizona Patients Should Welcome Medicaid Work Requirements

Arizona just received the Trump Administration’s go-ahead to impose work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries. Under the policy, able-bodied enrollees between the ages of 19 and 49 will have to spend 80 hours a month working, attending school, or giving back to their community in some way. Arizona will be the eighth state ...
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What We’re Watching – February 1

Kerry Jackson – How Much Land Would It Take for California to Go 100% Renewable? We’ve written a lot about California’s unrealistic and unworkable energy policies, and how they are increasing energy poverty for more and more people, especially in rural, inland, and minority communities.  This staggering video shows what ...
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Will Lawmakers Ever Be Held to Account For Their Legislative Malpractice?

California continues to rank last, or so near the bottom that it makes no difference, in quality-of-life lists, and it’s not quite clear if the news has made it to Sacramento yet. Because there are no efforts being made to turn things around. Instead, it seems the majority of lawmakers ...
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What We’re Watching – Welcome to Change

This week, PRI is celebrating National School Choice Week with the release of our new mini-documentary, “Welcome to Change”. The film profiles Life Learning Academy on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, which serves students battling significant adversity – violence, poverty, broken homes, even homelessness. Watch the movie and you’ll ...
Commentary

Partial Medicaid expansion isn’t the solution

Some Trump administration officials, and even President Trump himself, reportedly favor allowing states to partially expand Medicaid, the program for low-income Americans jointly funded by the federal and state governments. Any expansion is a bad idea, for both fiscal and moral reasons. Obamacare enabled states to enroll able-bodied, childless adults ...
Poverty

Complimentary Registration for California Ideas in Action Conference

How Free Market Ideas Can Build New, Diverse Coalitions Many have written the obituary for free-market ideas following 2018’s blue wave in California. To the contrary, there are many free-market ideas that have wide, bipartisan appeal and can serve as the foundation for new, diverse coalitions. PRI’s first annual California ...
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Firing the Deep State

Irate over plummeting stock prices in recent weeks, the media reported that President Trump wanted to fire his appointed Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.  But can he really fire him?  It turns out that the law is murky in this area.  Trump can fire Powell, but only “for cause.” And that ...
California

California’s energy mandates amount to state-legislated energy poverty

Every Californian wants to conserve energy and see cleaner air and water in the Golden State. But in their quest to safeguard the state’s environment for future generations, Sacramento policymakers have put in place an overzealous regulatory scheme that negatively impacts poor and minority communities. The new Pacific Research Institute ...
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Universal Income Just Another Name for Putting Everyone on Welfare

One idea that has been gaining traction recently is a system of universal income, also known as basic income. The city of Stockton, California will be the nation’s first city to launch a universal income pilot program in 2019.  While the specific policy proposals take many forms, the basic idea ...
Blog

New Polling Shows Free Market Ideas Still Hold Sway in Liberal California

The first weeks of 2019 have been dominated by the push from emboldened Sacramento liberals to enact measures increasing our tax burden, imposing new regulations on employers, and taking away some of our personal freedom. Most observers argue, based on the massive 2018 Democrat victories, that voters were giving a ...
Commentary

Arizona Patients Should Welcome Medicaid Work Requirements

Arizona just received the Trump Administration’s go-ahead to impose work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries. Under the policy, able-bodied enrollees between the ages of 19 and 49 will have to spend 80 hours a month working, attending school, or giving back to their community in some way. Arizona will be the eighth state ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – February 1

Kerry Jackson – How Much Land Would It Take for California to Go 100% Renewable? We’ve written a lot about California’s unrealistic and unworkable energy policies, and how they are increasing energy poverty for more and more people, especially in rural, inland, and minority communities.  This staggering video shows what ...
Blog

Will Lawmakers Ever Be Held to Account For Their Legislative Malpractice?

California continues to rank last, or so near the bottom that it makes no difference, in quality-of-life lists, and it’s not quite clear if the news has made it to Sacramento yet. Because there are no efforts being made to turn things around. Instead, it seems the majority of lawmakers ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – Welcome to Change

This week, PRI is celebrating National School Choice Week with the release of our new mini-documentary, “Welcome to Change”. The film profiles Life Learning Academy on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, which serves students battling significant adversity – violence, poverty, broken homes, even homelessness. Watch the movie and you’ll ...
Commentary

Partial Medicaid expansion isn’t the solution

Some Trump administration officials, and even President Trump himself, reportedly favor allowing states to partially expand Medicaid, the program for low-income Americans jointly funded by the federal and state governments. Any expansion is a bad idea, for both fiscal and moral reasons. Obamacare enabled states to enroll able-bodied, childless adults ...
Poverty

Complimentary Registration for California Ideas in Action Conference

How Free Market Ideas Can Build New, Diverse Coalitions Many have written the obituary for free-market ideas following 2018’s blue wave in California. To the contrary, there are many free-market ideas that have wide, bipartisan appeal and can serve as the foundation for new, diverse coalitions. PRI’s first annual California ...
Blog

Firing the Deep State

Irate over plummeting stock prices in recent weeks, the media reported that President Trump wanted to fire his appointed Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.  But can he really fire him?  It turns out that the law is murky in this area.  Trump can fire Powell, but only “for cause.” And that ...
California

California’s energy mandates amount to state-legislated energy poverty

Every Californian wants to conserve energy and see cleaner air and water in the Golden State. But in their quest to safeguard the state’s environment for future generations, Sacramento policymakers have put in place an overzealous regulatory scheme that negatively impacts poor and minority communities. The new Pacific Research Institute ...
Blog

Universal Income Just Another Name for Putting Everyone on Welfare

One idea that has been gaining traction recently is a system of universal income, also known as basic income. The city of Stockton, California will be the nation’s first city to launch a universal income pilot program in 2019.  While the specific policy proposals take many forms, the basic idea ...
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