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The Governor’s Special Session Will Worsen Gasoline Affordability
The Governor’s Special Session Will Worsen Gasoline Affordability Wayne Winegarden and Kerry Jackson September 2024 The special session called by Governor Gavin Newsom is supposed to save Californians from price gasoline spikes. The governor wants to blame the price spikes on greedy corporations. His accusations are merely a diversion from the actual culprits – politicians in Sacramento. Instead of alleviating consumers affordability problems, the special session may inevitably prove Gideon Tucker’s maxim that “no man’s ...
NEW BRIEF: CalPERS’ Political Agenda Puts Taxpayers and Retirees at Risk with Low Returns, Higher Unfunded Liabilities
SACRAMENTO – CalPERS – which adheres to a politicized Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) agenda – is generating lower returns in its investment strategies compared to a more typical investment strategy, finds a new brief released today by the Pacific Research Institute, a non-partisan California-based free market think tank. CalPERS generated a 10-year average annual return of 7.1% through June 30, 2023. By comparison, PRI’s research shows that a typical diversified investment portfolio of 60 ...
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California’s Expensive but Ineffective Income Support Spending
California’s Expensive but Ineffective Income Support Spending Wayne Winegarden August 2024 Including federal, state, and local funds, California’s per capita spending on income support programs is 81 percent higher than the average expenditures for all other states – per capita spending of $3,869 compared to $2,141. These expenditures include “cash assistance paid directly to needy persons . . . vendor payments made directly to private purveyors for medical care, burials, and other commodities and services ...
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Californians Have Little to Show for All That Government Spending
Californians Have Little to Show for All That Government Spending Wayne Winegarden July 2024 It should not shock anyone that the FY2024-25 budget was short on fiscal discipline and long on budget gimmicks and fund shifts. Now that this year’s budget process is coming to an end, it is imperative to step back and gain some budgetary perspective. The Governor seems to think “this agreement sets the state on a path for long-term fiscal ...
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