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Does California’s Budget Crisis Discriminate Against Women?
Capital Ideas
By: Kelly Gorton
9.29.2010

A group of California legislators and community leaders recently met on the steps of the state capitol to protest Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget cuts. The group charged that these budget cuts disproportionately affect women, but the claim ignores some key realities.
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Governor Schwarzenegger: Don’t Build This Wall!
Capital Ideas
By: John R. Graham
9.22.2010

One of President Reagan’s most famous quotes was his appeal to Soviet Communist Party Chairman Gorbachev to “tear down this wall!” Governor Schwarzenegger has a similar opportunity to prevent a wall that limits people’s freedom from being built in the first place.
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New Study Finds GI Junior Scholarships Would Expand Education Options for CA Military Children
PRI Study
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
9.21.2010

New policy brief finds that providing military families with school vouchers to allow parents to choose schools that best fit their children’s needs would raise educational achievement and save the state money.
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New EPA Car Labels Should Stick to Facts
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
9.21.2010

Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation jointly announced that they are considering an upgrade of the energy and environmental information on new-car labels. Potential buyers, unfortunately, won’t find the whole story on the new labels, even though the timing is right.
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GI Junior Scholarships Would Expand Education Options for California Military Children
Capital Ideas
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
9.15.2010

Military personnel are in the service of their country more so than any federal bureaucrat or state regulator. It is entirely reasonable that military parents, who are not allowed to choose the conflicts in which they participate, should command more choice over the education of their children, who did not choose the military life. This does not constitute a plea for special privilege.
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ObamaCare Will Dramatically Reduce Choice in Private Insurance
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: John R. Graham
9.9.2010

One of the ways in which ObamaCare will reduce individuals’ and businesses’ choices of health insurance is through regulating the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR).
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Back-to-School Lessons from LAUSD
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
9.8.2010

Between 2001 and 2007, while much of this spending was going on, enrollment fell six percent in the LAUSD. During that time, however, LAUSD administrators increased by nearly 20 percent. In 2009, Lance Izumi has also noted, the LAUSD paid $200 million to 1,700 employees no longer on the job.
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Studies Disprove "Second Shift" Narrative
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
9.7.2010

It’s been a challenging summer for the Women’s Movement. The recent publication of two “time use surveys” in the United States and Europe contradicts the preferred feminist narrative about the lives of men and women.
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CARB Fakes Out California
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
9.1.2010

The University of California at Los Angeles is attempting to dump James Enstrom, a researcher with the UCLA School of Public Health. This action is part of a larger story with consequences for state government, the UC system, and every Californian.
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