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Covering Undocumented Immigrants Will Worsen The State’s Fiscal Crisis

Covering Undocumented Immigrants Will Worsen The State’s Fiscal Crisis Wayne Winegarden May 2025 A previous Spending Watch analysis estimated the fiscal and economic impact of funding Medi-Cal benefits to undocumented immigrants. The analysis estimated that the expansion will require an additional $11.6 billion in expenditures, which will impose large economic ...
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How does California’s employment growth compare with the rest of the US?

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California’s progressives point to the Trump Administration’s imposition of tariffs as a reason for its economic slowdown, and the LAO acknowledges that unpredictable policymaking at the federal level puts California’s ‘fragile economy at risk.’ But while California’s ports have seen a decline in economic activity over ...
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Don’t Take Cutting-Edge Drugs for Granted

It’s hard to imagine a more destructive plan. Importing foreign price controls on prescription drugs would reduce access to existing treatments for everything from rare diseases to cancer. To understand why, consider two recent pieces by Michael Baker for the American Action Forum’s “Reality Check-Up: The Truth About Single-Payer Systems.” ...
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Remembering our fallen heroes this Memorial Day

Memorial Day: Why We Celebrate It

This Memorial Day is particularly meaningful because in less than three weeks America will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States Army. Because we are alive today, it is natural for us to remember the conflicts and the sacrifices made during our own lifetimes. But the Army’s 250th ...
Agriculture

Women farmers experience farm stress differently

A little more than a third of farms in the U.S. are owned and operated by women. Recent research from the University of Georgia suggests women in ag experience the difficulties of farming and ranching differently than their male counterparts. The research further suggests additional efforts should be made to ...
Agriculture

Beef still superior to ‘Meatless Mondays,’ according to data

Research suggests Americans are paying closer attention to what they eat resulting in a slightly healthier population but climate change has not slowed in the last two decades. What has improved since the inception of Meatless Mondays is efficiency in cattle nutrition, water use, land management, and overall footprint in ...
Agriculture

Cattle can be a first line of fire defense

Research tells us cattle removed an estimated 11.6 billion pounds of fine fuels from California rangelands in 2017. Removal of fine fuels – grasses, shrubs, weeds – changes wildfire behaviors by keeping fires smaller and reducing flame length. As fire seasons continue to be a challenge for the state and ...
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Radar love: Do automated speed cameras make cities safer?

Radar love: Do automated speed cameras make cities safer? By D. Dowd Muska  |  May 23, 2025 Earlier this year, San Francisco garnered national headlines when it activated California’s first “speed safety cameras.” The city-county’s ticketing tech, however, wasn’t the focus of the spotlight. Under the state law authorizing the new system, “drivers with low ...
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Read the latest on the push for drug price controls

To Improve Drug Affordability Congress Should Fix the Payment System

Demanding that drug prices in the U.S. equal overseas prices is akin to demanding that the price of all expensive handbags should equal the prices for the knockoffs that people purchase from street vendors. Of course knockoff bags are cheaper. They violate the intellectual property rights of the bag’s maker, ...
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Read the latest from PRI's Free Cities Center

Immigration crackdowns may sabotage L.A.’s rebuilding efforts

Despite some efforts by the state government to cut red tape and accelerate the rebuilding, Angelenos are facing another obstacle: the federal government’s “mass deportations” agenda which will negatively impact the already dire shortage of construction workers. Immigrants make up 41% of the construction workforce in California, according to the ...
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Spending Watch

Covering Undocumented Immigrants Will Worsen The State’s Fiscal Crisis

Covering Undocumented Immigrants Will Worsen The State’s Fiscal Crisis Wayne Winegarden May 2025 A previous Spending Watch analysis estimated the fiscal and economic impact of funding Medi-Cal benefits to undocumented immigrants. The analysis estimated that the expansion will require an additional $11.6 billion in expenditures, which will impose large economic ...
Blog

How does California’s employment growth compare with the rest of the US?

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California’s progressives point to the Trump Administration’s imposition of tariffs as a reason for its economic slowdown, and the LAO acknowledges that unpredictable policymaking at the federal level puts California’s ‘fragile economy at risk.’ But while California’s ports have seen a decline in economic activity over ...
Blog

Don’t Take Cutting-Edge Drugs for Granted

It’s hard to imagine a more destructive plan. Importing foreign price controls on prescription drugs would reduce access to existing treatments for everything from rare diseases to cancer. To understand why, consider two recent pieces by Michael Baker for the American Action Forum’s “Reality Check-Up: The Truth About Single-Payer Systems.” ...
Blog

Remembering our fallen heroes this Memorial Day

Memorial Day: Why We Celebrate It

This Memorial Day is particularly meaningful because in less than three weeks America will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States Army. Because we are alive today, it is natural for us to remember the conflicts and the sacrifices made during our own lifetimes. But the Army’s 250th ...
Agriculture

Women farmers experience farm stress differently

A little more than a third of farms in the U.S. are owned and operated by women. Recent research from the University of Georgia suggests women in ag experience the difficulties of farming and ranching differently than their male counterparts. The research further suggests additional efforts should be made to ...
Agriculture

Beef still superior to ‘Meatless Mondays,’ according to data

Research suggests Americans are paying closer attention to what they eat resulting in a slightly healthier population but climate change has not slowed in the last two decades. What has improved since the inception of Meatless Mondays is efficiency in cattle nutrition, water use, land management, and overall footprint in ...
Agriculture

Cattle can be a first line of fire defense

Research tells us cattle removed an estimated 11.6 billion pounds of fine fuels from California rangelands in 2017. Removal of fine fuels – grasses, shrubs, weeds – changes wildfire behaviors by keeping fires smaller and reducing flame length. As fire seasons continue to be a challenge for the state and ...
Blog

Radar love: Do automated speed cameras make cities safer?

Radar love: Do automated speed cameras make cities safer? By D. Dowd Muska  |  May 23, 2025 Earlier this year, San Francisco garnered national headlines when it activated California’s first “speed safety cameras.” The city-county’s ticketing tech, however, wasn’t the focus of the spotlight. Under the state law authorizing the new system, “drivers with low ...
Blog

Read the latest on the push for drug price controls

To Improve Drug Affordability Congress Should Fix the Payment System

Demanding that drug prices in the U.S. equal overseas prices is akin to demanding that the price of all expensive handbags should equal the prices for the knockoffs that people purchase from street vendors. Of course knockoff bags are cheaper. They violate the intellectual property rights of the bag’s maker, ...
Blog

Read the latest from PRI's Free Cities Center

Immigration crackdowns may sabotage L.A.’s rebuilding efforts

Despite some efforts by the state government to cut red tape and accelerate the rebuilding, Angelenos are facing another obstacle: the federal government’s “mass deportations” agenda which will negatively impact the already dire shortage of construction workers. Immigrants make up 41% of the construction workforce in California, according to the ...
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