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Illustrated Letter From Sonny Haldeman To Renee Thomas, Dated 1983
Memeets up with Joe Nickell, a longtime paranormal investigator who’s been called the real-life Scully. We travel with him to RoswelNon the called the real-life Scully. We travel with him to Roswell, NM on the anniversary of the 1947 UFO Crash to talk to believers, skeptics and UFO witnesses alike ...
Blog
Latest California Climate Change Plan Doubles Down on Job-Killing Policies
Sacramento’s response to President Trump’s Inauguration Day was to release the latest version of its heavy-handed plan to stop global warming. The state’s updated approach to environmental policy will be about as effective in stopping climate change as another anti-Trump riot and far more economically damaging. The 2017 Climate Change ...
Climate Change
Obama’s Energy Plan Will Cost Poor Hundreds Of Billions To Stop 0.019 Degrees Of Global Warming
President Barack Obama’s plan to fight global warming will raise energy prices and drag many low-income Americans into “energy poverty,” according to a new study. The so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP) would significantly increase the price of electricity in the U.S., and could cost the economy up to $479 billion ...
Press Release
Senator Barbara Boxer Calls PRI A “Sham” Group In Senate Floor Remarks
July 12, 2016, San Francisco – Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today on the Senate floor denounced PRI as a “sham” group involved in undermining climate science. Senator Boxer said: “The Pacific Research Institute, which is a free-market think tank, published a number of anti-climate materials, including the Almanac of Environmental ...
Health Care Reform
Impact Magazine — Summer 2016
Download the Magazine Letter from the President DEAR FRIENDS America faces many challenges today that threaten the opportunity for her citizens to achieve their full potential. We have a healthcare system where medical decisions are increasingly being made by government bureaucrats instead of doctors and patients. We have unsustainable ...
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CAPITAL IDEAS: Pension reforms in peril if leaders don’t defend them
Unfunded public pensions threaten the fiscal solvency of states and localities across the country. And California is not immune. Back in 2012, San Diego voters recognized the threat and overwhelmingly supported Proposition B, a set of pension reforms that is helping San Diego stabilize its long-term budget outlook. Thanks to ...
Commentary
Obamacare Bloats U.S. Healthcare System
Last month, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a developed-country think tank, released its latest estimates of how much the rich world spends on health care. Yet again, the United States took the top spot. Our nation spends $8,713 per person on health care — more than double the ...
Publications
2014 Annual Report
As PRI marked its 35th anniversary in 2014, we remained focused on advancing market-based, pro-liberty policies in California and around the nation. In the run-up to and following the November 2014 mid-term elections, we ramped up our educational efforts to empower legislators in Sacramento, Washington, and statehouses across the country ...
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PRI has moved
PRI has moved. Our new address is: 101 Montgomery Street Suite 1300 San Francisco, CA 94104 Due to the relocation, our phones may be down for a short period. To contact us, please use our email. Thank you very much.
Press Release
Pacific Research Institute Ranks Small Business Regulation In The 50 States
Texas Ranks Best for Small Businesses; New Jersey Ranks Worst San Francisco, July 8, 2015 – The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) a non-partisan, non-profit think tank based in San Francisco, today released the “The 50-State Index of Small Business Regulation,” a comparison of the regulatory burdens of small businesses across ...
Illustrated Letter From Sonny Haldeman To Renee Thomas, Dated 1983
Memeets up with Joe Nickell, a longtime paranormal investigator who’s been called the real-life Scully. We travel with him to RoswelNon the called the real-life Scully. We travel with him to Roswell, NM on the anniversary of the 1947 UFO Crash to talk to believers, skeptics and UFO witnesses alike ...
Latest California Climate Change Plan Doubles Down on Job-Killing Policies
Sacramento’s response to President Trump’s Inauguration Day was to release the latest version of its heavy-handed plan to stop global warming. The state’s updated approach to environmental policy will be about as effective in stopping climate change as another anti-Trump riot and far more economically damaging. The 2017 Climate Change ...
Obama’s Energy Plan Will Cost Poor Hundreds Of Billions To Stop 0.019 Degrees Of Global Warming
President Barack Obama’s plan to fight global warming will raise energy prices and drag many low-income Americans into “energy poverty,” according to a new study. The so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP) would significantly increase the price of electricity in the U.S., and could cost the economy up to $479 billion ...
Senator Barbara Boxer Calls PRI A “Sham” Group In Senate Floor Remarks
July 12, 2016, San Francisco – Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today on the Senate floor denounced PRI as a “sham” group involved in undermining climate science. Senator Boxer said: “The Pacific Research Institute, which is a free-market think tank, published a number of anti-climate materials, including the Almanac of Environmental ...
Impact Magazine — Summer 2016
Download the Magazine Letter from the President DEAR FRIENDS America faces many challenges today that threaten the opportunity for her citizens to achieve their full potential. We have a healthcare system where medical decisions are increasingly being made by government bureaucrats instead of doctors and patients. We have unsustainable ...
CAPITAL IDEAS: Pension reforms in peril if leaders don’t defend them
Unfunded public pensions threaten the fiscal solvency of states and localities across the country. And California is not immune. Back in 2012, San Diego voters recognized the threat and overwhelmingly supported Proposition B, a set of pension reforms that is helping San Diego stabilize its long-term budget outlook. Thanks to ...
Obamacare Bloats U.S. Healthcare System
Last month, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a developed-country think tank, released its latest estimates of how much the rich world spends on health care. Yet again, the United States took the top spot. Our nation spends $8,713 per person on health care — more than double the ...
2014 Annual Report
As PRI marked its 35th anniversary in 2014, we remained focused on advancing market-based, pro-liberty policies in California and around the nation. In the run-up to and following the November 2014 mid-term elections, we ramped up our educational efforts to empower legislators in Sacramento, Washington, and statehouses across the country ...
PRI has moved
PRI has moved. Our new address is: 101 Montgomery Street Suite 1300 San Francisco, CA 94104 Due to the relocation, our phones may be down for a short period. To contact us, please use our email. Thank you very much.
Pacific Research Institute Ranks Small Business Regulation In The 50 States
Texas Ranks Best for Small Businesses; New Jersey Ranks Worst San Francisco, July 8, 2015 – The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) a non-partisan, non-profit think tank based in San Francisco, today released the “The 50-State Index of Small Business Regulation,” a comparison of the regulatory burdens of small businesses across ...
