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Business & Economics
New PRI Survey: Housing, Education, Business Climate Top Reasons Why Industries Aren’t Moving to California
New PRI Survey: Housing, Education, Business Climate Top Reasons Why Highly-Desired Industries Aren’t Moving to California Survey Gives Insight into Location Decisions of R&D, Clean Tech, Manufacturing Execs Business executives, including those in clean tech, R&D, manufacturing, and other industries highly-desired by California legislators, say the high costs of housing ...
California
Kerry Jackson in Jonah Goldberg Column: Does the California Model Really Work?
The alleged success of the California model is one of the more intense controversies in the nerdier corners of public-policy debate. For many progressives, California’s metastasizing liberalism proves you can have Scandinavian-style social policies and tax rates and still have robust economic growth. For conservatives, California is like a bumblebee. ...
California
Kerry Jackson Cited in Intellectual Takeout: California Has the Highest Poverty Rate in America. Why?
an you guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the U.S.? Many people would say Mississippi. That’s how I would have responded if you had asked me this morning, and I would have been right in a sense. There are two different ways to measure poverty, you see. ...
California
California, Poverty Capital
California—not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia—has the highest poverty rate in the United States. According to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure—which accounts for the cost of housing, food, utilities, and clothing, and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income—nearly one out of four Californians is ...
California
Suppose you live in America’s most liberal state. Now suppose you live in the state known as “poverty capital of America.” But I repeat myself.
. . . US states (are) ranked for two different measures of poverty: a) the official measure of poverty and b) the Census Bureau’s recently introduced (2011) Supplemental Poverty Measure(SPM), which accounts for each state’s cost-of-living, housing costs, utilities, medical costs and taxes. It also considers non-cash government assistance as a ...
California
End of Legislative Session Brings Brief Respite from Higher Energy Prices
Legislation that would have required all electric power sold in the state to be generated by renewable sources by 2045 was held up in the final days of the recently-completed legislative session. But it will come back. Should the idea ever become law, we’ll remember these as the easy days ...
California
CAPITAL IDEAS: Thriving Middle Class Essential to California Comeback
In a Fox News interview-turned-rant, CalExit leader Shankar Singam stunned host Tucker Carlson when he insisted that middle-class flight from California is “actually a good thing.” “We need these spots opened up for the new wave of immigrants to come up. It’s what we do. We export our middle class ...
California
Thriving Middle Class Essential to California Comeback
Download the Brief In a Fox News interview-turned-rant, CalExit leader Shankar Singam stunned host Tucker Carlson when he insisted that middle-class flight from California is “actually a good thing.” “We need these spots opened up for the new wave of immigrants to come up. It’s what we do. We export ...
Agriculture
With Pruitt At EPA, Oklahomans May Get Relief From Clean Power Plan
More and more Oklahomans today are living in energy poverty.Energy poverty is defined as spending more than 10 percent of your income on electricity, natural gas, and other household energy costs. More than half of those surveyed in a 2011 poll said they were having a more difficult time paying ...
Commentary
Clean Power Plan Would Trap More People In Poverty
More and more West Virginians are living in energy poverty today. If you spend more than 10 percent of your income on electricity, natural gas, and other household energy costs, then you are afflicted by energy poverty. It is a tragedy that forces some families to choose between keeping the ...
New PRI Survey: Housing, Education, Business Climate Top Reasons Why Industries Aren’t Moving to California
New PRI Survey: Housing, Education, Business Climate Top Reasons Why Highly-Desired Industries Aren’t Moving to California Survey Gives Insight into Location Decisions of R&D, Clean Tech, Manufacturing Execs Business executives, including those in clean tech, R&D, manufacturing, and other industries highly-desired by California legislators, say the high costs of housing ...
Kerry Jackson in Jonah Goldberg Column: Does the California Model Really Work?
The alleged success of the California model is one of the more intense controversies in the nerdier corners of public-policy debate. For many progressives, California’s metastasizing liberalism proves you can have Scandinavian-style social policies and tax rates and still have robust economic growth. For conservatives, California is like a bumblebee. ...
Kerry Jackson Cited in Intellectual Takeout: California Has the Highest Poverty Rate in America. Why?
an you guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the U.S.? Many people would say Mississippi. That’s how I would have responded if you had asked me this morning, and I would have been right in a sense. There are two different ways to measure poverty, you see. ...
California, Poverty Capital
California—not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia—has the highest poverty rate in the United States. According to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure—which accounts for the cost of housing, food, utilities, and clothing, and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income—nearly one out of four Californians is ...
Suppose you live in America’s most liberal state. Now suppose you live in the state known as “poverty capital of America.” But I repeat myself.
. . . US states (are) ranked for two different measures of poverty: a) the official measure of poverty and b) the Census Bureau’s recently introduced (2011) Supplemental Poverty Measure(SPM), which accounts for each state’s cost-of-living, housing costs, utilities, medical costs and taxes. It also considers non-cash government assistance as a ...
End of Legislative Session Brings Brief Respite from Higher Energy Prices
Legislation that would have required all electric power sold in the state to be generated by renewable sources by 2045 was held up in the final days of the recently-completed legislative session. But it will come back. Should the idea ever become law, we’ll remember these as the easy days ...
CAPITAL IDEAS: Thriving Middle Class Essential to California Comeback
In a Fox News interview-turned-rant, CalExit leader Shankar Singam stunned host Tucker Carlson when he insisted that middle-class flight from California is “actually a good thing.” “We need these spots opened up for the new wave of immigrants to come up. It’s what we do. We export our middle class ...
Thriving Middle Class Essential to California Comeback
Download the Brief In a Fox News interview-turned-rant, CalExit leader Shankar Singam stunned host Tucker Carlson when he insisted that middle-class flight from California is “actually a good thing.” “We need these spots opened up for the new wave of immigrants to come up. It’s what we do. We export ...
With Pruitt At EPA, Oklahomans May Get Relief From Clean Power Plan
More and more Oklahomans today are living in energy poverty.Energy poverty is defined as spending more than 10 percent of your income on electricity, natural gas, and other household energy costs. More than half of those surveyed in a 2011 poll said they were having a more difficult time paying ...
Clean Power Plan Would Trap More People In Poverty
More and more West Virginians are living in energy poverty today. If you spend more than 10 percent of your income on electricity, natural gas, and other household energy costs, then you are afflicted by energy poverty. It is a tragedy that forces some families to choose between keeping the ...
