Watch Kerry Jackson, Fellow with PRI’s Center for California Reform, discuss California’s homeless crisis and other topics with Graham Ledger on the “Daily Ledger” on One America News Network....
06 March, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO – California-based non-partisan think tank Pacific Research Institute today applauded the California Supreme Court’s decision in a landmark case on public employee pension reform, Cal Fire Local 2881 v. CalPERS and t...
04 March, 2019
California has a well-deserved reputation for being unfriendly to business. Depending on what happens in Sacramento this year, the environment for workers could become unpleasant, as well. An attack on workers’ freedom began nearl...
21 February, 2019Gov. Gavin Newsom triggered a firestorm on Wednesday by signing an executive order ordering a moratorium on the death penalty. His action effectively grants a reprieve from lethal injections for the state’s 737 death row inmates....
18 March, 2019In another First in the Nation policy to come out of California, the L.A. City Council voted 14 to 0 to pass an ordinance requiring companies doing business with the city to disclose whether they or their workers have ties to the ...
14 March, 2019This week on PRI’s “Next Round” podcast, I sit down with Senator Mike Morrell, R-Rancho Cucamonga. Among the topics that we discussed was his legislation to ensure safer schools for all students (Senate Bill 709), also known as t...
12 March, 2019
In part 1 of a special 4-part series on how free-market ideas can build new, diverse coalitions in California, PRI’s Sally Pipes, Wayne Winegarden, and Henry Miller discuss how proposals like single-payer health care and new manda...
18 March, 2019
Senate Housing Committee Vice Chair Mike Morrell joins us to discuss all things housing, including the prospects for free-market housing reform legislation this session and his thoughts on Gov. Newsom targeting cities over their f...
11 March, 2019
Samuel Coleman, California Outreach Director of the Freedom Foundation, discusses his organization’s efforts to inform union members of their First Amendment rights after the landmark Supreme Court Janus decision in 2018. Janus r...
18 February, 2019It is no coincidence that California’s housing prices began to diverge from the rest of the country in 1970 – the very year that the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) was enacted. According to California’s nonpartisan ...
20 February, 2019Download the PDF The rest of the country wasn’t surprised when California recently considered becoming the first state in the country to tax text messages. It almost seems as if there is a group of unelected bureaucrats that does ...
16 January, 2019DOWNLOAD THE PDF Keeping track of the many informative lists in which California ranks at or near the bottom is a wearying task. It is also discouraging. This state, once the envy of all others, is losing its luster because policy...
06 November, 2018
Watch Kerry Jackson, Fellow with PRI’s Center for California Reform, discuss California’s homeless crisis and other topics with Graham Ledger on the “Daily Ledger” on One America News Network....
06 March, 2019Watch PRI Communications Director Tim Anaya share his thoughts on the inauguration of Gavin Newsom as California’s 40th governor, and the importance of the pageantry and rituals of the inaugural ceremony on KPBS “Eveni...
04 January, 2019Listen to the Hon. Dan Kolkey, PRI board member and attorney with Gibson Dunn, discuss the closely watched case Cal Fire v. CalPERS and the State of California. The case challenges the ability of state and local governments to adj...
10 December, 2018
Commentary
Americans Who Want Socialism Should Consider Moving to California
Trump adviser and distinguished economist Larry Kudlow wants to put socialism on trial, challenge it, debate it, rebut it — and convict it. “I don’t want us to stand idly by,” Kudlow said at the Conservative Political Action Confe...
10 March, 2019Tent City by the Bay
San Francisco’s homeless problem has become so grim that tourists wonder if they’ve just wandered into a seedy neighborhood. Last year, a Reddit user posted that he had “walked past numerous homeless” people who were “screaming an...
05 March, 2019Work-Hating California Seeks to Stop Freelance Workers
California has a well-deserved reputation for being unfriendly to business. Depending on what happens in Sacramento this year, the environment for workers could become unpleasant, as well. An attack on workers’ freedom began nearl...
21 February, 2019