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Representative Young Kim (CA-39) – Keynote, PRI Sacramento Policy Conference
Newly elected Representative Young Kim of Orange County provided the keynote address at this year’s virtual Sacramento Ideas in Action Policy conference. Rep. Kim discusses her first days in Congress, her legislative priorities, and her goal to forge bipartisanship in Washington.
Blog
Lessons from the Left Coast: The economic costs from adopting California’s approach to global climate change
All signs indicate that the Biden Administration is adopting California’s approach to global climate of prohibit, discourage, and subsidize. The prohibit plank refers to punishing the politically disfavored energy sources of nuclear and natural gas. California has punished nuclear power generation by shuttering the San Onofre Nuclear Generating station in ...
Education
School Choice Week 2021: How Students Can Overcome Learning Disabilities Through Science and School Choice
The new Pacific Research Institute book A Kite in a Hurricane No More profiles the challenges and ultimate triumph of Mia Giordano, a young woman with serious learning disabilities that conventional schools could not help and who is the co-author of the book along with PRI’s Lance Izumi. It was ...
Agriculture
California must change course to avoid water shortages
Californians have recently endured increasingly aggressive wildfires, rolling power outages, and smoke-filled air for days. Unless the state government changes course, we can add water shortages to this list. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, California has already suffered three droughts during this century – 2001-2002, 2007-2009, and 2012-2016. To ...
California
PRI’s Kerry Jackson weighs in on Newsom budget plan in OC Register: California’s spend-a-thon begins
Gov. Gavin Newsom submitted his budget Friday, outlining how he wants the state to spend a record $227.2 billion in the 2021-2022 fiscal year. And spend California will, as usual on items in no way connected to government’s limited role in our lives. In addition to the usual largess customarily ...
Coronavirus
PRI’s Lance Izumi Talks About the Need to Reopen Schools on Newsy
Watch Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss the debate over school reopenings and the resignation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Newsy, the national cable news network. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Newsy-7_00-PM-8_00-PM-Lance-Izumi-interview-NT-1.8.2021.mp4
Charter Schools
NEW BRIEF: New Obstacles Hinder Students Trapped in Failing Schools From Escaping to Charter Schools
Political interests, teachers unions and legislators are thwarting new and existing charter schools, and parents and students must use every available tool to fight back, argues a new research brief released today by the Pacific Research Institute, a California-based, nonpartisan think tank. Click here to download the brief ...
Business & Economics
Wayne Winegarden Quoted in Nor Cal Record Story on Covid-19 Stimulus Bill
New federal COVID stimulus package could help in short term; longer-term impact less clear By Sarah Downey As final agreements on the new COVID-19 stimulus package were negotiated last week, crucial help for businesses and families was approved alongside projects having less to do with economic recovery. “The new relief package reminds ...
Business & Economics
Bloomberg Article on ESG Quotes PRI’s Wayne Winegarden
A Sign the ESG Movement Is Too Big to Ignore: There’s Backlash In the waning days of the Trump administration, several agencies are pushing back on the notion that corporations should prioritize anything other than profits. By Peter Coy, December 22, 2020, 2:00 AM PST The legal principle that corporate ...
Business & Economics
Watch PRI Webinar: Data Privacy and Cybersecurity, 2020 Winners and Losers
On this webinar, PRI welcomes back an all-star panel of experts representing legal, regulatory, and policy industries to discuss state and federal changes to data privacy and cybersecurity during 2020 and what the future holds for tech, digital privacy, and cybersecurity in 2021. Speakers: Bartlett Cleland, Senior Fellow, Technology and ...
Representative Young Kim (CA-39) – Keynote, PRI Sacramento Policy Conference
Newly elected Representative Young Kim of Orange County provided the keynote address at this year’s virtual Sacramento Ideas in Action Policy conference. Rep. Kim discusses her first days in Congress, her legislative priorities, and her goal to forge bipartisanship in Washington.
Lessons from the Left Coast: The economic costs from adopting California’s approach to global climate change
All signs indicate that the Biden Administration is adopting California’s approach to global climate of prohibit, discourage, and subsidize. The prohibit plank refers to punishing the politically disfavored energy sources of nuclear and natural gas. California has punished nuclear power generation by shuttering the San Onofre Nuclear Generating station in ...
School Choice Week 2021: How Students Can Overcome Learning Disabilities Through Science and School Choice
The new Pacific Research Institute book A Kite in a Hurricane No More profiles the challenges and ultimate triumph of Mia Giordano, a young woman with serious learning disabilities that conventional schools could not help and who is the co-author of the book along with PRI’s Lance Izumi. It was ...
California must change course to avoid water shortages
Californians have recently endured increasingly aggressive wildfires, rolling power outages, and smoke-filled air for days. Unless the state government changes course, we can add water shortages to this list. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, California has already suffered three droughts during this century – 2001-2002, 2007-2009, and 2012-2016. To ...
PRI’s Kerry Jackson weighs in on Newsom budget plan in OC Register: California’s spend-a-thon begins
Gov. Gavin Newsom submitted his budget Friday, outlining how he wants the state to spend a record $227.2 billion in the 2021-2022 fiscal year. And spend California will, as usual on items in no way connected to government’s limited role in our lives. In addition to the usual largess customarily ...
PRI’s Lance Izumi Talks About the Need to Reopen Schools on Newsy
Watch Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss the debate over school reopenings and the resignation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Newsy, the national cable news network. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Newsy-7_00-PM-8_00-PM-Lance-Izumi-interview-NT-1.8.2021.mp4
NEW BRIEF: New Obstacles Hinder Students Trapped in Failing Schools From Escaping to Charter Schools
Political interests, teachers unions and legislators are thwarting new and existing charter schools, and parents and students must use every available tool to fight back, argues a new research brief released today by the Pacific Research Institute, a California-based, nonpartisan think tank. Click here to download the brief ...
Wayne Winegarden Quoted in Nor Cal Record Story on Covid-19 Stimulus Bill
New federal COVID stimulus package could help in short term; longer-term impact less clear By Sarah Downey As final agreements on the new COVID-19 stimulus package were negotiated last week, crucial help for businesses and families was approved alongside projects having less to do with economic recovery. “The new relief package reminds ...
Bloomberg Article on ESG Quotes PRI’s Wayne Winegarden
A Sign the ESG Movement Is Too Big to Ignore: There’s Backlash In the waning days of the Trump administration, several agencies are pushing back on the notion that corporations should prioritize anything other than profits. By Peter Coy, December 22, 2020, 2:00 AM PST The legal principle that corporate ...
Watch PRI Webinar: Data Privacy and Cybersecurity, 2020 Winners and Losers
On this webinar, PRI welcomes back an all-star panel of experts representing legal, regulatory, and policy industries to discuss state and federal changes to data privacy and cybersecurity during 2020 and what the future holds for tech, digital privacy, and cybersecurity in 2021. Speakers: Bartlett Cleland, Senior Fellow, Technology and ...
