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Wayne Winegarden and Kerry Jackson Featured in the Sacramento Business Journal for Project Homekey Study
Advocacy group Pacific Research Institute pushes back on state’s claims about Homekey homeless program By Ben van der Meer – Senior Reporter, Sacramento Business Journal The state of California touted Project Homekey as a creative way to address the state’s housing shortage, and more directly, its growing population of people ...
Featured
We’re Nominated! Cast your vote for PRI today!
PRI has been nominated for two prestigious national awards – and we need your help to win! State Policy Network has recognized PRI with nominations for two awards, recognizing our successes in stopping destructive policies from Sacramento that would take away our freedoms, and promoting market-based reforms that would improve ...
Magazines
Impact Magazine Summer 2022
Download the PDF Letter from the President Dear Friends and Supporters, Earlier this year, Californians were shocked to learn that 3,000 students could be denied admission this fall to one of the state’s premier institutions of higher learning – UC Berkeley. They were even more ...
Blog
ESG Investing? Investors want to make their own choices
“Doing well and doing good,” is an oft-used tagline by ESG investing (Environmental, Social, Governance) advocates and industry publicists. But we’ve often wondered what would happen if investors had to choose between the two – a portfolio of stocks that outperform or one that leaves out stocks social and environmental ...
Blog
ESG Investing? Investors want to make their own choices
“Doing well and doing good,” is an oft-used tagline by ESG investing (Environmental, Social, Governance) advocates and industry publicists. But we’ve often wondered what would happen if investors had to choose between the two – a portfolio of stocks that outperform or one that leaves out stocks social and environmental ...
Gas tax
Wayne Winegarden Warns of the Consequences of Gas Tax Holidays and Gas Rebates in Newsweek
Wayne Winegarden, PRI fellow for Business & Economics, warns of the consequences of gas tax holidays and gas rebates in Newsweek: Wayne Winegarden, a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute, echoed that if the Federal Reserve does not accommodate additional spending of gas rebate cards, the measure would “put ...
Housing
Wayne Winegarden Offers His Comments on Another Steep Rate Hike Coming in S&P Global
The Federal Open Market Committee is considering a 50-basis-point rate hike mid-June. Wayne Winegarden discusses the likelihood of elevated inflation persisting through the end of 2022: “Assuming the fiscal pressures subside, it will likely take until the late third quarter to start feeling some relief,” Winegarden said. “I think the ...
Business & Economics
Erik Jaffe – Supreme Court Preview
Erik Jaffe, PRI adjunct fellow in legal studies and one of the nation’s top constitutional lawyers, joins us to give his reaction to the Supreme Court “leak” and previews the major cases that will be decided in the coming weeks.
Climate Change
Wayne Winegarden featured in Northern California Record on Climate Change Lawsuit Study
Wayne Winegarden was featured in Nor Cal Record in Sarah Downey’s piece “Greenhouse gas litigation is disincentiving energy innovation, Pacific Research Institute finds” discussing his recent climate change lawsuit study: With gas prices now above $6 in California and continuing to rise, a new Pacific Research Institute brief has found that all the litigation ...
CEQA
Let’s End the Suspense
On Thursday, the Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees held their “suspense hearings.” For those of you who are not Capitol insiders, every bill that has a fiscal impact greater than $150,000 is sent to the “suspense file”. Every one of these bills is weighed against one another for their fiscal ...
Wayne Winegarden and Kerry Jackson Featured in the Sacramento Business Journal for Project Homekey Study
Advocacy group Pacific Research Institute pushes back on state’s claims about Homekey homeless program By Ben van der Meer – Senior Reporter, Sacramento Business Journal The state of California touted Project Homekey as a creative way to address the state’s housing shortage, and more directly, its growing population of people ...
We’re Nominated! Cast your vote for PRI today!
PRI has been nominated for two prestigious national awards – and we need your help to win! State Policy Network has recognized PRI with nominations for two awards, recognizing our successes in stopping destructive policies from Sacramento that would take away our freedoms, and promoting market-based reforms that would improve ...
Impact Magazine Summer 2022
Download the PDF Letter from the President Dear Friends and Supporters, Earlier this year, Californians were shocked to learn that 3,000 students could be denied admission this fall to one of the state’s premier institutions of higher learning – UC Berkeley. They were even more ...
ESG Investing? Investors want to make their own choices
“Doing well and doing good,” is an oft-used tagline by ESG investing (Environmental, Social, Governance) advocates and industry publicists. But we’ve often wondered what would happen if investors had to choose between the two – a portfolio of stocks that outperform or one that leaves out stocks social and environmental ...
ESG Investing? Investors want to make their own choices
“Doing well and doing good,” is an oft-used tagline by ESG investing (Environmental, Social, Governance) advocates and industry publicists. But we’ve often wondered what would happen if investors had to choose between the two – a portfolio of stocks that outperform or one that leaves out stocks social and environmental ...
Wayne Winegarden Warns of the Consequences of Gas Tax Holidays and Gas Rebates in Newsweek
Wayne Winegarden, PRI fellow for Business & Economics, warns of the consequences of gas tax holidays and gas rebates in Newsweek: Wayne Winegarden, a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute, echoed that if the Federal Reserve does not accommodate additional spending of gas rebate cards, the measure would “put ...
Wayne Winegarden Offers His Comments on Another Steep Rate Hike Coming in S&P Global
The Federal Open Market Committee is considering a 50-basis-point rate hike mid-June. Wayne Winegarden discusses the likelihood of elevated inflation persisting through the end of 2022: “Assuming the fiscal pressures subside, it will likely take until the late third quarter to start feeling some relief,” Winegarden said. “I think the ...
Erik Jaffe – Supreme Court Preview
Erik Jaffe, PRI adjunct fellow in legal studies and one of the nation’s top constitutional lawyers, joins us to give his reaction to the Supreme Court “leak” and previews the major cases that will be decided in the coming weeks.
Wayne Winegarden featured in Northern California Record on Climate Change Lawsuit Study
Wayne Winegarden was featured in Nor Cal Record in Sarah Downey’s piece “Greenhouse gas litigation is disincentiving energy innovation, Pacific Research Institute finds” discussing his recent climate change lawsuit study: With gas prices now above $6 in California and continuing to rise, a new Pacific Research Institute brief has found that all the litigation ...
Let’s End the Suspense
On Thursday, the Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees held their “suspense hearings.” For those of you who are not Capitol insiders, every bill that has a fiscal impact greater than $150,000 is sent to the “suspense file”. Every one of these bills is weighed against one another for their fiscal ...
