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Who are winners and losers of 2023 legislative session?

Progressives Dominate Legislative Session, But Will Newsom Spoil the Party?

Late Thursday evening, the Legislature wrapped up its business for the 2023 legislative session.  As bleary-eyed lawmakers travel home today for the fall recess, what is the biggest story of this year’s legislative session? This year’s legislative session will go down as perhaps the most successful legislative session ever for ...
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Read about latest job killer bill

Lawmakers Push Yet Another Drain on California Employers Stretched to the Breaking Point

If California policymakers set out to punish and in some cases eventually destroy small businesses, they would add to employers’ already heavy burden by nearly doubling the number of paid sick days they have to provide. Which is exactly what they are doing. Senate Bill 616, passed on Sept. 1 ...
Business & Economics

Read about latest tax hike push at State Capitol

California’s Already High Taxes Could Increase if Democratic Legislators Prevail

California has been losing businesses and residents to states with lower tax burdens for years, and the response in Sacramento has been puzzling. Rather than trying to compete with those states, the counter has been to instead raise taxes even higher. Following this formula, legislators recently passed ​​Assembly Constitutional Amendment ...
Business & Economics

Watch Wayne Winegarden Discuss Legal Reform Study on Nasdaq Trade Talks

Watch PRI’s Dr. Wayne Winegarden discuss his latest study, “Enriching Lawyers, Not Helping Victims” on Nasdaq Trade Talks.  To download a copy of the study, click here.
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Read about latest minimum wage push

New Proposal Would Raise Minimum Wage to $30 for Theme Park, Hotel Workers

Board ​​Chair Janice Hahn and Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath have ginned up a minimum-wage hike for hotel and theme park employees working at sites in unincorporated parts of the county. The idea was introduced at the Board’s Aug. 8 meeting and will be considered as a motion on Sept. 12. ...
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Read latest about state pension problem

ESG and CalPERS Sub-par Investment Returns

CalPERS has one core social responsibility – maximizing returns to help secure the retirement of millions of current and future pensioners. The pension fund is also a major proponent of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing. CalPERS claims that ESG “disclosures provide important metrics to understand how a company’s practices ...
Business & Economics

Carol Roth – You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back

Our guest this week is New York Times bestselling author Carol Roth She discusses her newest book You Will Own Nothing with PRI senior fellow in business and economic studies Wayne Winegarden. Carol examines global inflation, government spending, and a growing trend in Western countries to not accumulate wealth. She cautious that this is the perfect economic environment for the rich and powerful to solidify their positions and prevent ...
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Read about new CA green mandate

Outlawing Commercial Gas Ovens Latest Government Hit on Minority Workers

You may have missed it, but there was another shot fired last week in the war by California bureaucrats against gas-powered appliances. The South Coast Air Quality Management District – the unelected body given sweeping regulatory powers in the name of reducing air pollution in Southern California – passed a ...
Banking

Don’t bank on this financially illiterate idea going away

Don’t bank on this financially illiterate idea going away By Sal Rodriguez | August 3, 2023 Over the last few years, city officials in Los Angeles and San Francisco have flirted with the idea of establishing public banks to ostensibly support or facilitate the cause of the day. San Francisco ...
Business & Economics

You Will Own Nothing

WATCH: PRI’s webinar with bestselling author Carol Roth

Watch PRI’s webinar with New York Times bestselling author Carol Roth, discussing her new book, You Will Own Nothing, in conversation with PRI senior fellow in business and economics Dr. Wayne Winegarden.
Blog

Who are winners and losers of 2023 legislative session?

Progressives Dominate Legislative Session, But Will Newsom Spoil the Party?

Late Thursday evening, the Legislature wrapped up its business for the 2023 legislative session.  As bleary-eyed lawmakers travel home today for the fall recess, what is the biggest story of this year’s legislative session? This year’s legislative session will go down as perhaps the most successful legislative session ever for ...
Blog

Read about latest job killer bill

Lawmakers Push Yet Another Drain on California Employers Stretched to the Breaking Point

If California policymakers set out to punish and in some cases eventually destroy small businesses, they would add to employers’ already heavy burden by nearly doubling the number of paid sick days they have to provide. Which is exactly what they are doing. Senate Bill 616, passed on Sept. 1 ...
Business & Economics

Read about latest tax hike push at State Capitol

California’s Already High Taxes Could Increase if Democratic Legislators Prevail

California has been losing businesses and residents to states with lower tax burdens for years, and the response in Sacramento has been puzzling. Rather than trying to compete with those states, the counter has been to instead raise taxes even higher. Following this formula, legislators recently passed ​​Assembly Constitutional Amendment ...
Business & Economics

Watch Wayne Winegarden Discuss Legal Reform Study on Nasdaq Trade Talks

Watch PRI’s Dr. Wayne Winegarden discuss his latest study, “Enriching Lawyers, Not Helping Victims” on Nasdaq Trade Talks.  To download a copy of the study, click here.
Blog

Read about latest minimum wage push

New Proposal Would Raise Minimum Wage to $30 for Theme Park, Hotel Workers

Board ​​Chair Janice Hahn and Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath have ginned up a minimum-wage hike for hotel and theme park employees working at sites in unincorporated parts of the county. The idea was introduced at the Board’s Aug. 8 meeting and will be considered as a motion on Sept. 12. ...
Blog

Read latest about state pension problem

ESG and CalPERS Sub-par Investment Returns

CalPERS has one core social responsibility – maximizing returns to help secure the retirement of millions of current and future pensioners. The pension fund is also a major proponent of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing. CalPERS claims that ESG “disclosures provide important metrics to understand how a company’s practices ...
Business & Economics

Carol Roth – You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back

Our guest this week is New York Times bestselling author Carol Roth She discusses her newest book You Will Own Nothing with PRI senior fellow in business and economic studies Wayne Winegarden. Carol examines global inflation, government spending, and a growing trend in Western countries to not accumulate wealth. She cautious that this is the perfect economic environment for the rich and powerful to solidify their positions and prevent ...
Blog

Read about new CA green mandate

Outlawing Commercial Gas Ovens Latest Government Hit on Minority Workers

You may have missed it, but there was another shot fired last week in the war by California bureaucrats against gas-powered appliances. The South Coast Air Quality Management District – the unelected body given sweeping regulatory powers in the name of reducing air pollution in Southern California – passed a ...
Banking

Don’t bank on this financially illiterate idea going away

Don’t bank on this financially illiterate idea going away By Sal Rodriguez | August 3, 2023 Over the last few years, city officials in Los Angeles and San Francisco have flirted with the idea of establishing public banks to ostensibly support or facilitate the cause of the day. San Francisco ...
Business & Economics

You Will Own Nothing

WATCH: PRI’s webinar with bestselling author Carol Roth

Watch PRI’s webinar with New York Times bestselling author Carol Roth, discussing her new book, You Will Own Nothing, in conversation with PRI senior fellow in business and economics Dr. Wayne Winegarden.
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