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Making the Pieces Fit
Press Release
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D, Evelyn B. Stacey
6.30.2010
Policy brief finds that adopting a Florida-style foster-care scholarship program in California would have no negative impact to state and public-school budgets, improve school stability and the provision of specialized education services for foster-care students, and even encourage adoptions by expanding access to high quality schools.
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Make California 'open for business'
Orange County Register
6.26.2010
If we are to emerge from the current economic crisis and return to the prosperity enjoyed by previous generations, the state must implement three dramatic reforms immediately, with particular attention to jobs.
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What an economist learned in Haiti
Caribbean News Net
6.24.2010
I recently spent a week in Haiti helping with reconstruction efforts. I volunteered only as someone with two hands and a lot of Gatorade, but my professional background as an economist allowed me to diagnose some of Haiti’s problems.
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It's not easy being nonunion green
Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
6.19.2010
The state's Democratic legislators have an inordinate hostility to the free marketplace, as evidenced by their endless push for new business regulations and for higher taxes for corporations and wealthy Californians.
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At the crossroads of Silicon Valley, Sacramento
San Francisco Examiner
By: Vince Vasquez
6.18.2010
California is pursuing an IT Strategic Plan, the official state blueprint for improving citizen and internal services through technology investments. Though launched with good intentions, the plan could benefit from some revision and more input from Silicon Valley.
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Obama’s promises, promises
Daily Caller
By: Sally C. Pipes
6.17.2010
He campaigned on a promise to decrease health care spending by households by $2,500 per person. His bill will increase it by $2,100 according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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The real lesson in Obama’s education policies
Daily Caller
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
6.17.2010
Until now, the crafting of standards has been the purview of individual states. The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, however, have recently produced national standards the Obama administration says are voluntary, but which RTTT requires states to adopt if they want to be eligible for funding.
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Voters, not leaders, confront Vallejo's mess
San Francisco Chronicle
6.15.2010
It's one thing for police and fire unions to ignore grim economic reality, but for an elected City Council one year removed from financial ruin, it's madness. "To the police and fire unions, it's like nothing has happened," said Steven Greenhut, director of the Pacific Research Institute's Journalism Center.
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Will California’s ‘Top Two’ Primary Work?
New York Times
By: Steven Greenhut
6.9.2010
California’s Proposition 14 is the latest fantasy-world reform that some Californians — especially those in the business community — believe will restore the deficit-plagued state to fiscal health by changing the type of legislators elected to office.
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A dishonest debate on VAT
The Hill's Congressional Blog
By: Jason Clemens
6.1.2010
The debate over a national sales tax, or value-added tax (VAT), to tackle the country’s deficit and debt problems is becoming fiercer as we approach the fall election.
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