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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 ...
Drug Pricing
What to Know in Washington: When Drugs Make News, Trump Reacts
Staffers at the Department of Health and Human Services have gotten used to a pattern: President Donald Trump sees a news report on spikes in prescription-drug list prices, Secretary Alex Azar is called to a meeting in the Oval Office, and a policy in the discussion stage gets accelerated and ...
Health Care
President Trump Shares Sally Pipes’ op-ed on Medicare For All
President Donald J. Trump took to Facebook on Monday to share Sally Pipes’ latest Fox News column on how union members will be impacted by the push by Democratic candidates for a single-payer health care system. Click here to read the column that the President is talking about.
Business & Economics
Sally C. Pipes in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on gender pay gap at the White House
Sally C. Pipes offered her critique about a reported gender pay gap in the White House. “Sally Pipes of the conservative Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco argued, “You can’t just generally add up all the women and all the men. What are the titles and what does each job ...
Commentary
Colorado’s big government emissions mandate
Colorado officials are painting a rosy picture of the impact on the economy and the environment from its low emission vehicle standards’ known as the Colorado Low Emission Automobile Regulation, or CLEAR. State officials prepared an initial economic impact analysis of the regulations, which replicate California’s expensive auto emissions standards, ...
Environment
Wayne Winegarden Colorado study featured in the Center Square
Wayne Winegarden’s most recent study on a new vehicle emissions regulation in Colorado (Colorado’s Low Emission Automobile Regulation (CLEAR): An Evaluation of the Initial Economic Impact Analysis) was featured in an article on The Center Square. Wayne is PRI’s Senior Fellow in Business and Economics. “But a critical analysis of ...
Charter Schools
Read Lance Izumi’s op-ed in the Washington Times: When national teacher unions careen left
As the national teacher unions careen farther and farther left, they now brazenly proclaim politics and power as their goals, while openly dismissing quality education as their priority. Education analyst and retired Los Angeles teacher Larry Sand observed that at the recent annual meeting of the National Education Association, the country’s ...
California
Californians’ Transportation Choices Should Be Left to Them—Not Bureaucrats
Last month, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Metro system “is hemorrhaging bus riders.” The news was presented as, if not a crisis, at least an urgent matter that needs to be promptly addressed. Yet that’s hardly the case. It’s troubling, we’re supposed to infer, that “passengers have fled” ...
California
Berkeley Is Opening The Manhole Of Absurdity In California
Keeping up with the foolishness in California is not difficult. Just look to Berkeley, home of the University of California’s flagship campus. The city continues to go where no other has gone before, deep into pure Blue State madness. Writing last year in National Review, Alexander Nazaryan and Alexandra DeSanctis ...
Economy
Colorado Low Emission Vehicle Standard Would Increase Energy Poverty Without Major Emission Reductions
State Analysis Paints Rosy Picture of Impact of CLEAR on Economy, Environment New analysis from the non-partisan Pacific Research Institute, a California-based free-market think tank, finds that Colorado’s proposed low emission vehicle standards would impose higher economic costs on poor and working-class communities without generating significant environmental benefits. Click here ...
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 ...
What to Know in Washington: When Drugs Make News, Trump Reacts
Staffers at the Department of Health and Human Services have gotten used to a pattern: President Donald Trump sees a news report on spikes in prescription-drug list prices, Secretary Alex Azar is called to a meeting in the Oval Office, and a policy in the discussion stage gets accelerated and ...
President Trump Shares Sally Pipes’ op-ed on Medicare For All
President Donald J. Trump took to Facebook on Monday to share Sally Pipes’ latest Fox News column on how union members will be impacted by the push by Democratic candidates for a single-payer health care system. Click here to read the column that the President is talking about.
Sally C. Pipes in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on gender pay gap at the White House
Sally C. Pipes offered her critique about a reported gender pay gap in the White House. “Sally Pipes of the conservative Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco argued, “You can’t just generally add up all the women and all the men. What are the titles and what does each job ...
Colorado’s big government emissions mandate
Colorado officials are painting a rosy picture of the impact on the economy and the environment from its low emission vehicle standards’ known as the Colorado Low Emission Automobile Regulation, or CLEAR. State officials prepared an initial economic impact analysis of the regulations, which replicate California’s expensive auto emissions standards, ...
Wayne Winegarden Colorado study featured in the Center Square
Wayne Winegarden’s most recent study on a new vehicle emissions regulation in Colorado (Colorado’s Low Emission Automobile Regulation (CLEAR): An Evaluation of the Initial Economic Impact Analysis) was featured in an article on The Center Square. Wayne is PRI’s Senior Fellow in Business and Economics. “But a critical analysis of ...
Read Lance Izumi’s op-ed in the Washington Times: When national teacher unions careen left
As the national teacher unions careen farther and farther left, they now brazenly proclaim politics and power as their goals, while openly dismissing quality education as their priority. Education analyst and retired Los Angeles teacher Larry Sand observed that at the recent annual meeting of the National Education Association, the country’s ...
Californians’ Transportation Choices Should Be Left to Them—Not Bureaucrats
Last month, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Metro system “is hemorrhaging bus riders.” The news was presented as, if not a crisis, at least an urgent matter that needs to be promptly addressed. Yet that’s hardly the case. It’s troubling, we’re supposed to infer, that “passengers have fled” ...
Berkeley Is Opening The Manhole Of Absurdity In California
Keeping up with the foolishness in California is not difficult. Just look to Berkeley, home of the University of California’s flagship campus. The city continues to go where no other has gone before, deep into pure Blue State madness. Writing last year in National Review, Alexander Nazaryan and Alexandra DeSanctis ...
Colorado Low Emission Vehicle Standard Would Increase Energy Poverty Without Major Emission Reductions
State Analysis Paints Rosy Picture of Impact of CLEAR on Economy, Environment New analysis from the non-partisan Pacific Research Institute, a California-based free-market think tank, finds that Colorado’s proposed low emission vehicle standards would impose higher economic costs on poor and working-class communities without generating significant environmental benefits. Click here ...
