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How to Improve California’s Business Climate
Action Alerts
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
2.3.2004
As the California State Legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wrestle over a plan to fix the state’s budget crisis, Dr. Lawrence J. McQuillan, director of Business and Economic Studies at the San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute, provides recommendations below in five areas that would help restore luster to the Golden State’s business climate
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The Impact of a Flat Tax on California's Economy
Action Alerts
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
8.1.2003
Dr. Lawrence J. McQuillan, director of Business and Economic Studies at PRI, estimated the effect on California’s economy of a five-percent flat-rate income tax on all personal income above $30,000 and on all corporate income. He generated the numbers using the California State Tax Analysis Modeling Program (Cal-STAMP), PRI’s proprietary statistical model of the California economy that measures how changes in the state’s taxes affect its economic activity.
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An E-government Resolution
Action Alert
By: Sonia Arrison
1.15.2002
E-government, the use of technology to streamline government functions, never was a panacea, regardless of what some technology evangelists said. But technology can still be of benefit if used wisely, as some public officials have already discovered.
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Status Quota: Admissions Policies for Premier High Schools in San Francisco
Action Alert
By: Diallo Dphrepaulezz
12.15.2001
The San Francisco school board recently approved new admissions criteria for the premier Lowell High School and School of the Arts (SOTA).1 The new policies are complete with percentage set-asides and “benchmarks,” and operate as quotas. Although the San Francisco Unified School District (“SFUSD”) promises parents and students that its recently approved Lowell/SOTA admissions policies will not lower the academic rigor and high standards at the city’s premier high schools, that is but another promise that the district cannot keep.2
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How to Improve the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
Health Care Action Alert
By: Chris Middleton
12.12.2001
As the system that has provided federal workers with a choice of health plans since 1960, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) is the oldest, most successful example of “defined contribution” health insurance. The program serves as a model for broader health care reform, but the future success of the FEHBP is being threatened.
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Getting to the Root of the Health-Care Problem
Action Alert
By: Laura Dykes
10.31.2001
Due to the September 11 terrorist attacks, more than 100,000 airline and related industry employees are expected to be laid off. From this tragedy has arisen an opportunity to get to the root of the problem of lost health coverage.
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Differentiated Compensation in Teacher Salaries
Action Alert
By: Lance T. Izumi
10.2.2001
Teacher shortages in certain subject fields and in so-called hard-to-staff schools plague efforts to improve public education. Yet, the inability of educators and policymakers to think outside of the box of uniform wage rates for all teachers, regardless of supply and demand in various teaching fields, hampers any effective effort to address the shortage.
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Memoranda of Inefficiency: Reflections on the Edison Bailout Plan
Action Alert
By: Benjamin Zycher
8.24.2001
Current proposals for avoiding a formal bankruptcy by Southern California Edison, as embodied in alternative draft legislative Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) now under consideration, explicitly will create a hierarchy of favored and less-favored creditors. This approach will create powerful incentives for those with lower priority to force Edison into bankruptcy immediately, in substantial part because of fiduciary responsibilities to their owners or shareholders. In short: Despite the ostensible purpose of the MOU in terms of avoiding a formal bankruptcy filing by Edison, this provision seems designed to force such a filing while shifting the attendant political responsibility to the less-favored creditors.
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Fannie Mae Is No Free Lunch For Taxpayers
Action Alerts
By: Laura Dykes, Randall Rohn
7.23.2001
Congress created Fannie Mae, the Federal National Mortgage Association, during the Depression to make home mortgages more available. While home ownership is still part of the American dream, most people never think about the considerable risks that Fannie Mae poses to taxpayers.
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