You’re Next: New PRI Study Finds Wealth Taxes May Start with Billionaires, But Average Families Could Pay the Price
Wayne Winegarden
October 9, 2026
SACRAMENTO – A new Pacific Research Institute study released today finds that average Californians could ultimately bear significant economic costs from a wealth tax – through fewer job opportunities, weaker income growth and increased fiscal pressure that could eventually reach ...
NEW PRI Book Tells Stories of Students, Parents and Educators Fighting Back Against DEI
Lance Izumi
October 5, 2026
SACRAMENTO – Students, parents, teachers, school board members and college professors across the country are challenging controversial so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies (DEI) and winning. Their stories are at the heart of a new book released today by the ...
California’s construction unions are running ads against their own jobs
Matthew Fleming
October 29, 2026
Construction unions formed an unholy alliance with their longtime enemy, environmentalists, to defeat a ballot measure and, apparently, winning requires burning down their own village. Their coalition recently launched an ad demonizing “dangerous” gas pipelines, industrial warehouses and data centers. ...
Another Bite At The Rotten Apple Of Publicly Financed Political Campaigns
Kerry Jackson
October 29, 2026
Financing candidates’ campaigns with public dollars has been largely prohibited in California since 1988, when voters enacted a ban by passing Proposition 73. Prop. 73 also placed restrictions on incumbent officeholders’ use of tax money to send newsletters and mass ...
Sally Pipes on The Drive Home with Dr. Greg Seltz
Sally C. Pipes
October 28, 2026
PRI’s Sally Pipes, President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute, appeared on The Drive Home Show to discuss Medicare for All and what it could mean for American healthcare. Listen to ...
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The Dead Do Tell a Tale.
For years, criminal-justice reformers treated fewer arrests, prosecutions and people behind bars as measures of success. Proposition 47 embodied that philosophy. Drug possession and some ...
Clear conflict of interest: Time to sever sheriff and coroner offices
The Democratic Legislature clearly has a bone to pick with Bianco over his seizure of county election ballots and his conservative, MAGA-style politics. This measure ...
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