New PRI Study Finds California Job Growth Lags Nation, High Costs Turn State’s Income Advantage into 35% Deficit
A new study released today by the Pacific Research Institute finds that California’s economic performance has fallen sharply behind the rest of the nation, with job growth since the COVID-19 pandemic at less than half the national rate, while the ...
A public bank in California would be costly, risky and unnecessary
But lawmakers were pushing forward anyway. AB 2243 would have established a taxpayer-funded commission to study the feasibility of a public bank and how it could act “as an additional financial tool to lower borrowing costs, strengthen local lending partnerships ...
Big Tech Lost in Monterey Park. California’s First Data Center Ban Is a Warning
I grew up in Monterey Park, attending both middle school and high school there. The Monterey Park I know is a small, family-centered community where people go to the park, kids go trick-or-treating, and youth sports are full of life. ...
AOC Says Single-Payer Is Forever – That’s the Problem
“Presidents come and go,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recently declared. “Single-payer is forever.” That line was meant as a boast. Americans should hear it as a warning. For years, progressives have treated government-run healthcare as the ultimate political prize. Sen. ...
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Big Medical Breakthroughs Start With Small Gains
That may not sound like much. For someone facing a terminal diagnosis, what difference does a few extra months really make, especially if the drugs ...
Medicare for All will bring real, human consequences in NJ
Democratic congressional candidates everywhere from Illinois and Maine to New Jersey and Pennsylvania are embracing Medicare for All. More than 100 House Democrats have backed ...
On Juvenile Justice Policy Debates Driven By Untested Dogma, Not Data or Honest Timelines
Two 2026 bills—Assembly Bill 1902 by Asm. Gail Pellerin (D-Santa Cruz) and the failed “Lorenso’s Law” (AB 2040) by Asm. Alexandra Macedo (R-Tulare)—show how lawmakers ...
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