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Winegarden Comments on COVID-19 Data Privacy Concerns

Title: Privacy considerations prevalent as COVID-19 testing migrates to workplaces By: Sarah Downey, Northern California Record As businesses embark on reopening plans, the question of how to test employees and customers for COVID-19 could present difficulty especially in the area of privacy law. . . . . . Research is ...
Business & Economics

CNBC Article on Stimulus Payments Quotes Wayne Winegarden

Title: Are second $1,200 stimulus checks coming? Here’s what we know By: Lorie Konish, CNBC Capitol Hill has come to a standstill following heated discussions last week on what to include in the next coronavirus stimulus package. One thing they did seem to agree on was another set of $1,200 ...
Energy Costs

Impact Magazine – Summer 2020

DOWNLOAD THE PDF .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom:56.25%; height:0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;} Letter from the President These are stressful times for our nation. Americans have faced shelter-in-place orders that lasted weeks. ...
Health Care

Sally Pipes interviewed in World Magazine: Promise me anything

Promise me anything By Marvin Olasky Sally Pipes is president of the Pacific Research Institute and the author of False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All (Encounter). I interviewed her on Feb. 6, just after that book came out, and just before COVID-19 hit the headlines. Her analysis ...
California

Wayne Winegarden Sounds Alarm on Bill Impacting Insurance Companies

More legislation under consideration for business interruption claims BY: Sarah Downey, NorCal Record A new California bill addressing business interruption claims arising from the COVID-19 outbreak would include rebuttable presumptions that the business losses are pandemic-related and put the burden on insurance companies to show otherwise. Many businesses have had ...
Business & Economics

Wayne Winegarden Featured in Business Insider Article on Taxing Billionaires, COVID-19

Taxing billionaires would be a great way to fund the fight against coronavirus like AOC says — but only if the US government were drastically different By: Taylor Nicole Rogers, Business Insider The United States needs to find a way to cover the spiraling costs of coronavirus pandemic, but researchers ...
Business & Economics

Damon Dunn Responds to Twitter CEO’s Support for Basic Income on NTD TV

Watch PRI Fellow in Business and Economics Damon Dunn respond to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey coming out in support of universal basic income with host Paul Greaney on NTD TV.
Business & Economics

PRI’s Tim Anaya Featured in Center Square Story on CA’s Volatile Tax System

Policy experts: California needs to reform its tax system By Krystina Skurk California’s reliance on a notoriously fickle tax system has exacerbated the state’s budget problems in light of Covid-19, an economics professor said. The state of California relies heavily on income tax and capital gains tax for much of ...
Business & Economics

PRI’s Wayne Winegarden Quoted in Free Beacon story on Bogus Gig Economy Survey

Labor Groups, San Francisco Push Bogus Taxpayer-Funded Survey to Support Anti-Gig Law By Collin Anderson A liberal advocacy group’s own researchers raised red flags about a taxpayer-funded study used to justify a union campaign against the California gig economy . . . The survey reported that 71 percent of gig ...
Business & Economics

PRI’s Hon. Dan Kolkey Quoted in Los Angeles Times on state executive orders

California’s mask order tests the limits of Newsom’s executive power By: Phil Willon Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order June 18 requiring all Californians to wear face masks came as welcome news to those in the state concerned by the recent surge in COVID-19 cases. Nevada City Mayor Reinette Senum instead greeted ...
Coronavirus

Winegarden Comments on COVID-19 Data Privacy Concerns

Title: Privacy considerations prevalent as COVID-19 testing migrates to workplaces By: Sarah Downey, Northern California Record As businesses embark on reopening plans, the question of how to test employees and customers for COVID-19 could present difficulty especially in the area of privacy law. . . . . . Research is ...
Business & Economics

CNBC Article on Stimulus Payments Quotes Wayne Winegarden

Title: Are second $1,200 stimulus checks coming? Here’s what we know By: Lorie Konish, CNBC Capitol Hill has come to a standstill following heated discussions last week on what to include in the next coronavirus stimulus package. One thing they did seem to agree on was another set of $1,200 ...
Energy Costs

Impact Magazine – Summer 2020

DOWNLOAD THE PDF .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom:56.25%; height:0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;} Letter from the President These are stressful times for our nation. Americans have faced shelter-in-place orders that lasted weeks. ...
Health Care

Sally Pipes interviewed in World Magazine: Promise me anything

Promise me anything By Marvin Olasky Sally Pipes is president of the Pacific Research Institute and the author of False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All (Encounter). I interviewed her on Feb. 6, just after that book came out, and just before COVID-19 hit the headlines. Her analysis ...
California

Wayne Winegarden Sounds Alarm on Bill Impacting Insurance Companies

More legislation under consideration for business interruption claims BY: Sarah Downey, NorCal Record A new California bill addressing business interruption claims arising from the COVID-19 outbreak would include rebuttable presumptions that the business losses are pandemic-related and put the burden on insurance companies to show otherwise. Many businesses have had ...
Business & Economics

Wayne Winegarden Featured in Business Insider Article on Taxing Billionaires, COVID-19

Taxing billionaires would be a great way to fund the fight against coronavirus like AOC says — but only if the US government were drastically different By: Taylor Nicole Rogers, Business Insider The United States needs to find a way to cover the spiraling costs of coronavirus pandemic, but researchers ...
Business & Economics

Damon Dunn Responds to Twitter CEO’s Support for Basic Income on NTD TV

Watch PRI Fellow in Business and Economics Damon Dunn respond to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey coming out in support of universal basic income with host Paul Greaney on NTD TV.
Business & Economics

PRI’s Tim Anaya Featured in Center Square Story on CA’s Volatile Tax System

Policy experts: California needs to reform its tax system By Krystina Skurk California’s reliance on a notoriously fickle tax system has exacerbated the state’s budget problems in light of Covid-19, an economics professor said. The state of California relies heavily on income tax and capital gains tax for much of ...
Business & Economics

PRI’s Wayne Winegarden Quoted in Free Beacon story on Bogus Gig Economy Survey

Labor Groups, San Francisco Push Bogus Taxpayer-Funded Survey to Support Anti-Gig Law By Collin Anderson A liberal advocacy group’s own researchers raised red flags about a taxpayer-funded study used to justify a union campaign against the California gig economy . . . The survey reported that 71 percent of gig ...
Business & Economics

PRI’s Hon. Dan Kolkey Quoted in Los Angeles Times on state executive orders

California’s mask order tests the limits of Newsom’s executive power By: Phil Willon Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order June 18 requiring all Californians to wear face masks came as welcome news to those in the state concerned by the recent surge in COVID-19 cases. Nevada City Mayor Reinette Senum instead greeted ...
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