Press Release
California
Evan Harris Responds to NCAA Move on Student Athlete Images on Newsy TV
NCAA Will Let Athletes Profit Off Their Names, Images And Likenesses By Adam Elrashidi The NCAA’s board said each division has to draft and enact the necessary rules no later than January 2021. The NCAA, the national governing body for collegiate athletics, ruled Tuesday that student athletes will be allowed ...
Press Release
PRI Files Amicus Brief in Closely Watched California Donor Privacy Case
SAN FRANCISCO – California-based nonpartisan think tank the Pacific Research Institute and the Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability filed an amicus curiae brief supporting American for Prosperity’s request that the U.S. Supreme Court hear a closely-watched case — Americans for Prosperity Foundation vs. Becerra — challenging the California Attorney General’s ...
California
California Globe Article on Charter Schools Features Lance Izumi
Gov. Gavin Newsom sent out a press release Wednesday announcing that he will sign “the first major overhaul to the charter schools law since its enactment 27 years ago, and will address longstanding challenges for both traditional public school districts and charter schools.” . . . . . .“’Taken together,’ says ...
Business & Economics
Kerry Jackson Quoted in Epoch Times Article on California Poverty
California continues to lead the nation in poverty, according to a recent Census Bureau report. The report (pdf), released in September 2019, measured states’ functional poverty rates, which takes into account the cost of living and other factors. California has the highest of any state, with about 18.2 percent of the population ...
California
Kerry Jackson Comments on Gig Economy Bill in Forbes
The state of California recently passed a bill that mandates app-based companies such as Lyft and Uber should treat their workers like employees instead of entrepreneurs. This could set a precedent for other states to sign up their own similar legislation on these ride-sharing companies. . . . . .Kerry ...
Health Care
Watch Sally C. Pipes debate at Intelligence Squared in New York
Sally C. Pipes debates against the replacement of private insurance for Medicare for all at Intelligence Squared Debates in New York. Intelligence Squared Debates is non-partisan debate series that brings together experts to discuss pressing public policy issues. Ms. Pipes and her debate partner Nick Gillespie, editor of Reason magazine, ...
Health Care
Sally C. Pipes Comments on CA Medi-Cal expansion in CALmatters story
Democratic legislators are advancing a bill that aims to provide free health care to low-income undocumented seniors — an idea that they floated earlier this year, but which failed to make it into the state budget because of concerns over its cost. The bill, authored by Los Angeles Democrat Maria Elena ...
Business & Economics
Damon Dunn Talks Socialist Policies on the Lars Larson Show
Damon Dunn sits down with Lars Larson Show to discuss his new PRI brief on why socialist policies cater to the poor and how the left takes advantage of this.
Commentary
Bidencare is bad news
As his chief competitors for the Democratic nomination for president rush to embrace Medicare for All, Joe Biden is running in the other direction. The former vice president has proposed building on Obamacare with a “public option,” which would let individuals purchase coverage from a new, government-run insurance plan. Biden ...
Education
Watch PRI Event on Universities, Diversity and Free Speech on C-SPAN
Watch C-SPAN’s national TV coverage of PRI’s recent lunch event with University of California Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo, who served as the deputy assistant U.S. attorney general during the George W. Bush administration, and PRI senior fellow and current UC Berkeley Professor Dr. Steven Hayward for a discussion about ...
Evan Harris Responds to NCAA Move on Student Athlete Images on Newsy TV
NCAA Will Let Athletes Profit Off Their Names, Images And Likenesses By Adam Elrashidi The NCAA’s board said each division has to draft and enact the necessary rules no later than January 2021. The NCAA, the national governing body for collegiate athletics, ruled Tuesday that student athletes will be allowed ...
PRI Files Amicus Brief in Closely Watched California Donor Privacy Case
SAN FRANCISCO – California-based nonpartisan think tank the Pacific Research Institute and the Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability filed an amicus curiae brief supporting American for Prosperity’s request that the U.S. Supreme Court hear a closely-watched case — Americans for Prosperity Foundation vs. Becerra — challenging the California Attorney General’s ...
California Globe Article on Charter Schools Features Lance Izumi
Gov. Gavin Newsom sent out a press release Wednesday announcing that he will sign “the first major overhaul to the charter schools law since its enactment 27 years ago, and will address longstanding challenges for both traditional public school districts and charter schools.” . . . . . .“’Taken together,’ says ...
Kerry Jackson Quoted in Epoch Times Article on California Poverty
California continues to lead the nation in poverty, according to a recent Census Bureau report. The report (pdf), released in September 2019, measured states’ functional poverty rates, which takes into account the cost of living and other factors. California has the highest of any state, with about 18.2 percent of the population ...
Kerry Jackson Comments on Gig Economy Bill in Forbes
The state of California recently passed a bill that mandates app-based companies such as Lyft and Uber should treat their workers like employees instead of entrepreneurs. This could set a precedent for other states to sign up their own similar legislation on these ride-sharing companies. . . . . .Kerry ...
Watch Sally C. Pipes debate at Intelligence Squared in New York
Sally C. Pipes debates against the replacement of private insurance for Medicare for all at Intelligence Squared Debates in New York. Intelligence Squared Debates is non-partisan debate series that brings together experts to discuss pressing public policy issues. Ms. Pipes and her debate partner Nick Gillespie, editor of Reason magazine, ...
Sally C. Pipes Comments on CA Medi-Cal expansion in CALmatters story
Democratic legislators are advancing a bill that aims to provide free health care to low-income undocumented seniors — an idea that they floated earlier this year, but which failed to make it into the state budget because of concerns over its cost. The bill, authored by Los Angeles Democrat Maria Elena ...
Damon Dunn Talks Socialist Policies on the Lars Larson Show
Damon Dunn sits down with Lars Larson Show to discuss his new PRI brief on why socialist policies cater to the poor and how the left takes advantage of this.
Bidencare is bad news
As his chief competitors for the Democratic nomination for president rush to embrace Medicare for All, Joe Biden is running in the other direction. The former vice president has proposed building on Obamacare with a “public option,” which would let individuals purchase coverage from a new, government-run insurance plan. Biden ...
Watch PRI Event on Universities, Diversity and Free Speech on C-SPAN
Watch C-SPAN’s national TV coverage of PRI’s recent lunch event with University of California Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo, who served as the deputy assistant U.S. attorney general during the George W. Bush administration, and PRI senior fellow and current UC Berkeley Professor Dr. Steven Hayward for a discussion about ...
