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CAPITAL IDEAS: What Executives in High-Demand Industries are Saying About Moving to California

DOWNLOAD THE PDF California has a deserved reputation for losing businesses to states where companies believe their commercial prospects are more promising. At the same time, businesses that stay are too often reluctant to expand in-state while many outside are unwilling to relocate or extend their operations into California. Executives ...
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“Middle Class Tax Justice” is an 18.84% Corporate Tax Hike?

Thanks to Trump’s corporate tax cut, companies have become, well, more enterprising. Where a 31 percent federal tax rate ruled out many new ventures, a 21 percent tax rate makes them far more viable.  So, it’s no surprise that state officials have been working overtime to attract new businesses to ...
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The View from Sacramento

PRI meets with Assembly Republican Leader Brian Dahle at the State Capitol. Last week, PRI’s team was in Sacramento for our annual “Legislative Day” at the State Capitol. Every year, we meet with legislators, key staff, and leaders in the Capitol Community to discuss our work on state issues, get ...
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Despite Ignored Pleas, PRI Survey Shows Taxes, Regulations Do Affect State’s Jobs Climate

We’ve heard it again and again, declarations from California’s progressive politicians on the need to attract “favored” industries to the state. And what are those favored industries? It’s an easy guess — tech, biotech, “clean” manufacturing, environmental companies, and so on.  Since attracting businesses – even progressives’ pet favorites – ...
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The Most Surprising Result in PRI’s California Business Climate Survey

This week, PRI’s scholars are offering their perspectives on different aspects of PRI’s new survey of business executives in high-demand fields who aren’t expanding in the Golden State. Reading the survey results, a lot of the findings were what you might expect. For example, 71 percent said that the state’s ...
California

Feinstein Foreshadowing

What a difference a few decades make: in 1990, Dianne Feinstein was apparently too far left for California voters, losing a gubernatorial race to Republican Pete Wilson. Nearly 30 years later, she’s not left enough—at least for the state Democratic Party, which has refused to endorse her for a fifth ...
Business & Economics

Joel Fox on PRI’s California Business Climate Survey

Survey:  Biz Execs Down on CA A survey of business executives in highly sought after industries such as clean tech and research & development conclude that California has a number of problems that prevent businesses from locating or expanding in the state. The Pacific Research Institute survey discovered that housing and real ...
Blog

California’s Housing Crisis Also Hurts Our Business Climate

When asked which factors influence their decisions about locating their businesses in California, the top concerns, according to a group of surveyed executives, are housing and real estate costs. No surprise, there. This state’s housing crunch is an enormous problem that threatens the future. The California business climate survey included ...
Blog

Why are Highly-Desired Industries & Jobs Not Coming to California?

California lawmakers have made it clear. They want clean tech, R&D, manufacturing, energy, and other highly-desired industries to set up shop in California and create jobs in the Golden. State. Yet, despite introducing legislation offering tax credits and other incentives for these companies to come here, most are choosing not ...
Business & Economics

New PRI Survey: Housing, Education, Business Climate Top Reasons Why Industries Aren’t Moving to California

New PRI Survey: Housing, Education, Business Climate Top Reasons Why Highly-Desired Industries Aren’t Moving to California Survey Gives Insight into Location Decisions of R&D, Clean Tech, Manufacturing Execs Business executives, including those in clean tech, R&D, manufacturing, and other industries highly-desired by California legislators, say the high costs of housing ...
Business & Economics

CAPITAL IDEAS: What Executives in High-Demand Industries are Saying About Moving to California

DOWNLOAD THE PDF California has a deserved reputation for losing businesses to states where companies believe their commercial prospects are more promising. At the same time, businesses that stay are too often reluctant to expand in-state while many outside are unwilling to relocate or extend their operations into California. Executives ...
Blog

“Middle Class Tax Justice” is an 18.84% Corporate Tax Hike?

Thanks to Trump’s corporate tax cut, companies have become, well, more enterprising. Where a 31 percent federal tax rate ruled out many new ventures, a 21 percent tax rate makes them far more viable.  So, it’s no surprise that state officials have been working overtime to attract new businesses to ...
Blog

The View from Sacramento

PRI meets with Assembly Republican Leader Brian Dahle at the State Capitol. Last week, PRI’s team was in Sacramento for our annual “Legislative Day” at the State Capitol. Every year, we meet with legislators, key staff, and leaders in the Capitol Community to discuss our work on state issues, get ...
Blog

Despite Ignored Pleas, PRI Survey Shows Taxes, Regulations Do Affect State’s Jobs Climate

We’ve heard it again and again, declarations from California’s progressive politicians on the need to attract “favored” industries to the state. And what are those favored industries? It’s an easy guess — tech, biotech, “clean” manufacturing, environmental companies, and so on.  Since attracting businesses – even progressives’ pet favorites – ...
Blog

The Most Surprising Result in PRI’s California Business Climate Survey

This week, PRI’s scholars are offering their perspectives on different aspects of PRI’s new survey of business executives in high-demand fields who aren’t expanding in the Golden State. Reading the survey results, a lot of the findings were what you might expect. For example, 71 percent said that the state’s ...
California

Feinstein Foreshadowing

What a difference a few decades make: in 1990, Dianne Feinstein was apparently too far left for California voters, losing a gubernatorial race to Republican Pete Wilson. Nearly 30 years later, she’s not left enough—at least for the state Democratic Party, which has refused to endorse her for a fifth ...
Business & Economics

Joel Fox on PRI’s California Business Climate Survey

Survey:  Biz Execs Down on CA A survey of business executives in highly sought after industries such as clean tech and research & development conclude that California has a number of problems that prevent businesses from locating or expanding in the state. The Pacific Research Institute survey discovered that housing and real ...
Blog

California’s Housing Crisis Also Hurts Our Business Climate

When asked which factors influence their decisions about locating their businesses in California, the top concerns, according to a group of surveyed executives, are housing and real estate costs. No surprise, there. This state’s housing crunch is an enormous problem that threatens the future. The California business climate survey included ...
Blog

Why are Highly-Desired Industries & Jobs Not Coming to California?

California lawmakers have made it clear. They want clean tech, R&D, manufacturing, energy, and other highly-desired industries to set up shop in California and create jobs in the Golden. State. Yet, despite introducing legislation offering tax credits and other incentives for these companies to come here, most are choosing not ...
Business & Economics

New PRI Survey: Housing, Education, Business Climate Top Reasons Why Industries Aren’t Moving to California

New PRI Survey: Housing, Education, Business Climate Top Reasons Why Highly-Desired Industries Aren’t Moving to California Survey Gives Insight into Location Decisions of R&D, Clean Tech, Manufacturing Execs Business executives, including those in clean tech, R&D, manufacturing, and other industries highly-desired by California legislators, say the high costs of housing ...
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