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Need Deficit Solutions? Think School Choice
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
1.16.2008
SACRAMENTO – According to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California faces a combined $14 billion budget deficit for this fiscal year and the next. In response, the governor has resorted to conventional remedies such as a 10-percent across-the-board spending cut. He should have remembered his original “blow-up-the-boxes” battle cry and proposed reforms such as school choice, which also save tax dollars.
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California Lights the Way: Legislature Could Become Global Internet Regulator
Capital Ideas
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
1.9.2008
Last week Governor Schwarzenegger created a new state agency to help Californians protect their personal information online. With more than one million cases of identity theft reported in California last year, the Office of Information Security and Privacy Protection will serve as a valuable educational resource to help residents stem this tide. When legislators return to work this week, however, they will face strong pressure from consumer groups seeking strict new privacy laws that threaten to impede the growth of Internet commerce worldwide.
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2008: Next Steps for Health Savings Accounts
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: Diana M. Ernst
1.8.2008
HSAs are still young, but they are part of a burgeoning reform movement called consumer-driven health care (CDHC), which is proving to lower costs and encourage responsible behavior among Americans seeking to save more money for health care.
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Leap Year for UC Categorical Imperative
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
1.2.2008
In 2008 the University of California will increase the number of officially recognized Asian categories from eight to 23, nearly a three-fold increase. UC administrators and various student groups hail the move as a milestone of diversity and aid to outreach. That remains dubious but the plan confirms that the UC system is more ethnically obsessed than it was in 1996, when Californians voters passed Proposition 209.
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