Pacific Research Institute
Business & Economics
Growth Industry for Lobbyists: You, the Taxpayer
Forget the stereotype of the lobbyists shilling for corporate welfare in the polished corridors of K Street. The biggest single market for the lobby industry is government itself, as state entities try to get (or keep) money and privileges flowing from legislatures. The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) recently studied how ...
Commentary
Reform Repeal Is Just Child’s Play
Repeal: Some say trying to repeal ObamaCare is a futile dream once people get used to its benefits, such as covering kids with pre-existing conditions. Once before, government was slapped down. It can be done. Entitlements can be addictive, and it’s certainly the purpose of this administration to make as ...
California
California stands to gain most from health bill
The stakes are high for Californians when it comes to the health care overhaul, mainly because the coverage problems in this vast state are so large. With a new UCLA study estimating that more than 8 million Californians, or nearly 25 percent of the population, lack health coverage, many health ...
Commentary
What Now?
With the Democrats’ health-care legislation having cleared the last legislative hurdle, it is all but inevitable that President Obama will be signing it into law. Is this the end of the road for the debate, or is there a way forward for real reform that puts decisions into the hands ...
Business & Economics
Tort Reform
Tort reform is a popular call-to-action when it comes to healthcare legislation. In general tort reform in the healthcare arena refers to reducing lawsuits or damages related to medical malpractice. Several states have enacted tort reform. No one argues that frivolous lawsuits need to be eliminated; rather the debate revolves ...
Commentary
Race to the Top Finalists Announced, Some Reforms Ignored
School Reform News, March 15, 2010 The nation’s largest state was not among the 15 states and the District of Columbia chosen to advance in the competition for a share of Race to the Top funds, the Obama administration’s $4.35 billion pot of education-stimulus gold. School reformers in California said ...
Common Core
Why Race to the Middle?
Read PDF Study Executive Summary The case for national standards rests on more than the need to equalize academic expectations for all students by remedying the uneven and often deplorable quality of most state standards and tests. The case also rests on the urgent need to increase academic achievement for ...
California
Why Race to the Middle? Massachusetts and California K-12 State Standards Far Exceed National Standards Drafts
BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO A day after President Obama and Secretary of Education Duncan laid out an aggressive plan to expand federal control over K-12 academic standards at the National Governors Association (NGA) winter meetings, a new report criticizes the national standards process as opaque and the federal push harmful not ...
Commentary
Obama’s Health Plan: New Federal Role for Insurance Regulation
President Obama this morning released a health care proposal that he will bring as a starting point for the bipartisan health care summit he is hosting Thursday. The plan closely follows the health care reform legislation that the Senate passed in December, but adds a new provision that would give ...
Business & Economics
Cut taxes to boost employment
Californias unemployment rate, according to the most recent figures, is 12.4 percent, fifth highest in the nation behind only such economic basket cases as Michigan and South Carolina. Californias second-largest city, San Diego, is known as Americas Finest City but hasnt been immune to unemployment problems. San Diegos unemployment rate ...
Growth Industry for Lobbyists: You, the Taxpayer
Forget the stereotype of the lobbyists shilling for corporate welfare in the polished corridors of K Street. The biggest single market for the lobby industry is government itself, as state entities try to get (or keep) money and privileges flowing from legislatures. The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) recently studied how ...
Reform Repeal Is Just Child’s Play
Repeal: Some say trying to repeal ObamaCare is a futile dream once people get used to its benefits, such as covering kids with pre-existing conditions. Once before, government was slapped down. It can be done. Entitlements can be addictive, and it’s certainly the purpose of this administration to make as ...
California stands to gain most from health bill
The stakes are high for Californians when it comes to the health care overhaul, mainly because the coverage problems in this vast state are so large. With a new UCLA study estimating that more than 8 million Californians, or nearly 25 percent of the population, lack health coverage, many health ...
What Now?
With the Democrats’ health-care legislation having cleared the last legislative hurdle, it is all but inevitable that President Obama will be signing it into law. Is this the end of the road for the debate, or is there a way forward for real reform that puts decisions into the hands ...
Tort Reform
Tort reform is a popular call-to-action when it comes to healthcare legislation. In general tort reform in the healthcare arena refers to reducing lawsuits or damages related to medical malpractice. Several states have enacted tort reform. No one argues that frivolous lawsuits need to be eliminated; rather the debate revolves ...
Race to the Top Finalists Announced, Some Reforms Ignored
School Reform News, March 15, 2010 The nation’s largest state was not among the 15 states and the District of Columbia chosen to advance in the competition for a share of Race to the Top funds, the Obama administration’s $4.35 billion pot of education-stimulus gold. School reformers in California said ...
Why Race to the Middle?
Read PDF Study Executive Summary The case for national standards rests on more than the need to equalize academic expectations for all students by remedying the uneven and often deplorable quality of most state standards and tests. The case also rests on the urgent need to increase academic achievement for ...
Why Race to the Middle? Massachusetts and California K-12 State Standards Far Exceed National Standards Drafts
BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO A day after President Obama and Secretary of Education Duncan laid out an aggressive plan to expand federal control over K-12 academic standards at the National Governors Association (NGA) winter meetings, a new report criticizes the national standards process as opaque and the federal push harmful not ...
Obama’s Health Plan: New Federal Role for Insurance Regulation
President Obama this morning released a health care proposal that he will bring as a starting point for the bipartisan health care summit he is hosting Thursday. The plan closely follows the health care reform legislation that the Senate passed in December, but adds a new provision that would give ...
Cut taxes to boost employment
Californias unemployment rate, according to the most recent figures, is 12.4 percent, fifth highest in the nation behind only such economic basket cases as Michigan and South Carolina. Californias second-largest city, San Diego, is known as Americas Finest City but hasnt been immune to unemployment problems. San Diegos unemployment rate ...
