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Business & Economics
NEW STUDY: Rejecting Push to Restrict Gig Entrepreneurship Key to Driving Innovation, Economic Growth, Higher Incomes
Amid a renewed push in Congress and states to enact new gig economy restrictions following California’s controversial AB 5, a new study released today by the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute finds that enacting these harmful laws would hinder innovation and restrict people’s ability to become entrepreneurs and provide for their ...
California
Watch Kerry Jackson on “California Insider” – California Bans Everything
Watch Kerry Jackson, fellow with PRI’s Center for California Reform, discuss the move by state lawmakers to ban things ranging from gas-powered cars to ketchup packets at fast food restaurants on the “California Insider” show.
Business & Economics
NEW STUDY: Bad Policy Choices Zap Californians with $1450 Average Electricity Bills
Californians are being zapped with higher electricity bills – averaging $1450 per year – thanks to state government energy regulations, taxes, and subsidies, finds a new report released today by the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute. Repealing or reforming these costly policies could save the average household $517 per year, ...
Health Care
Watch Sally Pipes on “California Insider” – What if California’s Healthcare Becomes the DMV?
Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss the failed California single-payer legislation and what single-payer would mean for California patients on the “California Insider” program.
Education
Watch PRI’s Webinar on the Homeschool Boom
Watch PRI’s 2022 National School Choice Week webinar featuring Lance Izumi discussing his new book, The Homeschool Boom. He moderates a panel discussion with teachers and parents discussing the rise in parents exercising the ultimate school choice option – the choice to educate their kids at home.
Health Care
Sally Pipes Talks CA Single Payer Bill on John and Ken Show
Listen to Sally Pipes, PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy, discuss AB 1400, the California single-payer legislation on the popular “John and Ken Show” on KFI Radio in Southern California.
Business & Economics
Wayne Winegarden talks economy, inflation, entrepreneurship on Live 5 News
Watch PRI’s Dr. Wayne Winegarden discuss inflation, the state of the economy, and his recent study on how government policy designed to help small businesses has negative impacted small businesses with anchor Raphael James on Live 5 News in Charleston, SC.
Education
Thousands of Kansas families stick with homeschooling after getting a taste during the pandemic
KMUW | By Suzanne Perez Published December 8, 2021 at 1:46 PM CST WICHITA, Kansas — Worried about safety, resistant to mask orders and troubled by a lack of confidence in public schools, thousands more Kansas parents are opting to teach their kids at home. The shift comes in the wake of the ...
California
NEW STUDY: Government Fees ‘Nickel and Dime’ Californians Out of Hundreds of Dollars Per Year
California “nickel and dimes” consumers with hundreds of dollars in fees annually for under-utilized services, and their repeal would give relief from the high cost-of-living and make fees more efficient and accountable, finds a new study released today by California-based, nonpartisan, free-market think tank, the Pacific Research Institute. “While ...
Business & Economics
Wayne Winegarden Discusses Infrastructure Bill on Insight with Vicki Gonzalez
Listen to Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow in business and economics, discuss the federal infrastructure bill and the impact of higher spending on future entrepreneurship on “Insight with Vicki Gonzalez” on Capital Public Radio in Sacramento. The interview begins at the 15:45 mark. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/insight-211129-full-show.mp3
NEW STUDY: Rejecting Push to Restrict Gig Entrepreneurship Key to Driving Innovation, Economic Growth, Higher Incomes
Amid a renewed push in Congress and states to enact new gig economy restrictions following California’s controversial AB 5, a new study released today by the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute finds that enacting these harmful laws would hinder innovation and restrict people’s ability to become entrepreneurs and provide for their ...
Watch Kerry Jackson on “California Insider” – California Bans Everything
Watch Kerry Jackson, fellow with PRI’s Center for California Reform, discuss the move by state lawmakers to ban things ranging from gas-powered cars to ketchup packets at fast food restaurants on the “California Insider” show.
NEW STUDY: Bad Policy Choices Zap Californians with $1450 Average Electricity Bills
Californians are being zapped with higher electricity bills – averaging $1450 per year – thanks to state government energy regulations, taxes, and subsidies, finds a new report released today by the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute. Repealing or reforming these costly policies could save the average household $517 per year, ...
Watch Sally Pipes on “California Insider” – What if California’s Healthcare Becomes the DMV?
Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss the failed California single-payer legislation and what single-payer would mean for California patients on the “California Insider” program.
Watch PRI’s Webinar on the Homeschool Boom
Watch PRI’s 2022 National School Choice Week webinar featuring Lance Izumi discussing his new book, The Homeschool Boom. He moderates a panel discussion with teachers and parents discussing the rise in parents exercising the ultimate school choice option – the choice to educate their kids at home.
Sally Pipes Talks CA Single Payer Bill on John and Ken Show
Listen to Sally Pipes, PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy, discuss AB 1400, the California single-payer legislation on the popular “John and Ken Show” on KFI Radio in Southern California.
Wayne Winegarden talks economy, inflation, entrepreneurship on Live 5 News
Watch PRI’s Dr. Wayne Winegarden discuss inflation, the state of the economy, and his recent study on how government policy designed to help small businesses has negative impacted small businesses with anchor Raphael James on Live 5 News in Charleston, SC.
Thousands of Kansas families stick with homeschooling after getting a taste during the pandemic
KMUW | By Suzanne Perez Published December 8, 2021 at 1:46 PM CST WICHITA, Kansas — Worried about safety, resistant to mask orders and troubled by a lack of confidence in public schools, thousands more Kansas parents are opting to teach their kids at home. The shift comes in the wake of the ...
NEW STUDY: Government Fees ‘Nickel and Dime’ Californians Out of Hundreds of Dollars Per Year
California “nickel and dimes” consumers with hundreds of dollars in fees annually for under-utilized services, and their repeal would give relief from the high cost-of-living and make fees more efficient and accountable, finds a new study released today by California-based, nonpartisan, free-market think tank, the Pacific Research Institute. “While ...
Wayne Winegarden Discusses Infrastructure Bill on Insight with Vicki Gonzalez
Listen to Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow in business and economics, discuss the federal infrastructure bill and the impact of higher spending on future entrepreneurship on “Insight with Vicki Gonzalez” on Capital Public Radio in Sacramento. The interview begins at the 15:45 mark. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/insight-211129-full-show.mp3
