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Living wage laws offer no panacea
PRI in the News
By: George Avalos
6.30.2005
The latest salvo in the battle over living wage laws suggests the ordinances have unleashed some unintended consequences and produced mixed results.
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Business Climate Rankings Get Poor Marks in New Study
PRI in the News
By: Daniel Hemel
6.30.2005
Although New York placed dead last among the 50 states in a recent index of "economic freedom," a new report from a University of Iowa economics professor tells Big Apple residents not to worry. In the 89-page study, Peter Fisher argues that state-by-state business climate rankings should be ignored.
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Clear up misinformation about electronic voting
Technology Op-Ed
By: Vince Vasquez
6.29.2005
Former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker are in Houston this week conducting a hearing on how to improve U.S. elections. This opens an opportunity to dispel popular myths surrounding the technology of electronic voting.
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Making P2P a Capitalist Tool
Technology Op-Ed
6.24.2005
This month the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide MGM vs. Grokster, the case that could determine whether or not a peer-to-peer (P2P) company can be held liable for illegal activity on its network. The decision is key, but the future is also being shaped by the marketplace.
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Villaraigosa Should Worry About the Border
Business and Economics Op-Ed
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
6.22.2005
Although he was endorsed by Richard Riordan, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's education secretary, new Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has wasted no time in slamming the governor's views on controlling illegal immigration. Villaraigosa recently opined, "Instead of closing the borders, as stated by Schwarzenegger, we should look at our border as an opportunity." What Villaraigosa fails to mention is that many illegal immigrants have used poor border control as an opportunity for crime.
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Confusión empresarial
Business and Economics Op-Ed
By: Anthony P. Archie
6.21.2005
JP Morgan Chase, el banco más grande de Estados Unidos, con operaciones en más de 50 países, anunció recientemente que accederá a que grupos de activistas participen en las decisiones sobre la concesión de créditos. El banco recibió muchas alabanzas, pero con ello viola principios básicos del capitalismo, y entre los enemigos del libre mercado ninguno es tan efectivo como aquel que se autodesigna "socialmente responsable".
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Big Pharma Looks To Fill New Media Script As Feds Crack Down On TV Ads
PRI in the News
By: David Kaplan
6.20.2005
AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER television advertising has made pharmaceuticals one of the largest advertising categories, the continuing controversy over such ads is causing marketers and industry observers to search for marketing reforms as the specter of greater federal oversight looms.
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Americans should heed Canadians' health woes
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
6.17.2005
Canada's single-payer health care system is making news on both sides of the border. In the United States, influential Americans in politics, media and academia call for the United States to adopt a Canadian style, government-financed health care system. A few hundred miles north, Canadian patients are making news by petitioning their courts for the right to opt out of theirs.
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Call it GATE-gate
Education Op-Ed
By: Xiaochin Claire Yan
6.17.2005
Gifted individuals, those with an IQ of 125 or higher, make up only about 5 percent of the population, according to the Davidson Institute for Talent Development. In the city of Davis, school officials are using dubious means to boost the percentage of those considered gifted.
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Another Full-Employment Act For the Lawyers
Business and Economics Op-Ed
By: Benjamin Zycher
6.17.2005
Let us begin with the obvious: Politics is the art of wealth redistribution. And while the meek shall inherit the earth, someday, in the here and now it is Congress that bestows favors and imposes costs as we travel down that not-so-lonesome highway bedecked with signs proclaiming clean air and a myriad other goodies just over the next rise.
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Special Interests Threaten Telecom's Future
Technology Op-Ed
6.17.2005
California began a series of public hearings on the SBC/AT&T merger in Oakland, Calif., this week. While the purpose is to gather public input, in reality, special interests dominate, putting the real public interest at risk.
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Universal preschool: What they're not telling us
Education Op-Ed
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
6.15.2005
If one listens to Rob Reiner and his allies, universal preschool is an education silver bullet. Waving around a recent RAND report that claims that every tax dollar invested in preschool will generate up to $4 in a variety of societal benefits, Reiner is pushing an initiative that will provide government-paid preschool to all families, regardless of income level. The case for universal preschool, however, is much more porous than Reiner would have Californians believe.
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Unsocialized Medicine
Wall Street Journal
6.13.2005
Let's hope Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy were sitting down when they heard the news of the latest bombshell Supreme Court ruling. From the Supreme Court of Canada, that is. That high court issued an opinion last Thursday saying, in effect, that Canada's vaunted public health-care system produces intolerable inequality.
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Canada Care
PRI in the News
6.10.2005
Since New York politicians from Senator Clinton to Mayor Bloomberg have been touting Canada as the solution to America's medical cost problems, it's worth marking an important decision yesterday by the Supreme Court of Canada that may come to be seen as the beginning of the end of Canada's socialized health-care system
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Future Humans
Technology Op-Ed
6.10.2005
British biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey spoke at Stanford University this week about the prospects for curing aging. His reasoned presentation proved a stark contrast to authors like James Hughes, Executive Director of the World Transhumanist Association, who seek to prolong the life of worn-out political ideas.
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Broadband Battles
Technology Op-Ed
6.3.2005
Broadband experts gathered in Washington, D.C. this week to discuss the future of high-speed Internet access. Much of the talk centered on Texas, where a major battle recently took place between telecom companies and cable firms.
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What Social Responsibility?
Business and Economics Op-Ed
By: Anthony P. Archie
6.2.2005
JP Morgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank, recently announced that it would give activist groups a say in where the bank lends its money. While this action drew praise, it violates the tenets of capitalism. And among capitalism’s adversaries, perhaps none is more effective than the self-designated “socially responsible” corporation.
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Student bodies hit 49 million
PRI in the News
By: George Archibald
6.2.2005
Rising immigration and the "baby boom echo" have boosted U.S. school enrollment to more than 49 million, according to two federal reports issued yesterday.
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