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Expanding Unemployment Insurance Benefits – All Pain for No Gain
Expanding Unemployment Insurance Benefits – All Pain for No Gain Wayne Winegarden April 2024 SB 1434 would dramatically expand unemployment insurance benefits to current eligible workers. If implemented, it would expand benefits by over 55 percent, raise the number of workers who qualify for maximum benefits, increase the benefits for workers who hold two jobs but lost one, and create a new “Excluded Workers Fund.” The specific tax increases necessary to fund the expansions are ...
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Single Payer Will Worsen California’s Healthcare System and Reduce Economic Growth
Single Payer Will Worsen California’s Healthcare System and Reduce Economic Growth Wayne Winegarden March 2024 With the introduction of AB 2200, advocates are, once again, proposing that California adopt a single payer healthcare system. Ostensibly, their proposed CalCare system would streamline payments, lower per-capita spending, guarantee “quality health care and long-term care,” and eliminate “out-of-pocket costs.”[1] Further, proponents say the taxes imposed by the state would equal the money that would have been spent on healthcare, ...
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Reparations: A Financially Unrealistic Proposal That Will Bankrupt California
Reparations: A Financially Unrealistic Proposal That Will Bankrupt California Wayne Winegarden February 2024 With the introduction of its first set of reparations bills, the California legislature is officially considering the recommendations of the California Reparations Report from the state Reparations Task Force.1 Given these introductions, it is imperative to understand the financial implications. Some basic arithmetic demonstrates that the idea of reparations is fiscally unrealistic. According to the U.S. Census,2 there are 2.5 million “black ...
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Watch PRI’s webinar with New York Times bestselling author Carol Roth, discussing her new book, You Will Own Nothing, in conversation with PRI senior fellow in business and economics Dr. Wayne Winegarden.
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Haney told the Bay Area News Group that “smartphones have blurred the boundaries between work and home life,” and that “workers shouldn’t be punished for ...
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California’s reputation as being one of the most difficult and expensive places to own and operate a business and create jobs has been long established. ...
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You may have missed it, but there was another shot fired last week in the war by California bureaucrats against gas-powered appliances. The South Coast ...
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The popularity of farmers markets has swelled over the last three decades, from only 1,755 in 1994 across the country to 8,771 in 2019. The ...
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Subsidizing Strikes Is The California Legislature’s Latest Anti-Growth Proposal
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Expanding Unemployment Insurance Benefits – All Pain for No Gain
Wayne H Winegarden
April 22, 2024
Learn about Sacramento's latest anti-entrepreneurship bill
‘Right To Ignore Your Boss’ Bill Could Make Work-Life Balance Worse for Employees
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April 10, 2024
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The FDIC’s Ill-Advised Regulatory Grab
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Here’s what California’s radical reparations plan will cost taxpayers
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