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Business & Economics
How the GOP Tax Plan Will Affect Small Business
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act aims to spur economic growth across the United States by adjusting tax structures for small businesses and corporations. Though the bill is still being debated, amended and adjusted, if it passes, it may have serious implications for you and your business. It can be ...
Business & Economics
Analysis: House Tax Plan Would Create Nearly 1 Million New Jobs and Increase GDP By 3.9%
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the new legislation introduced by the House last week, would create nearly one million new jobs and increase gross domestic product by 3.9 percent, according to an analysis from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation. The bill cuts the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent; ...
Business & Economics
Killing the gasoline-powered car in California? That’s what one legislator wants by 2040
A clean energy advocate in the California Legislature wants internal combustion vehicles to sputter out of existence on the state’s roads and highways. “The cars that we drive today are based on technology that’s 100 years old,” said Assembly member Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. “It’s almost like we’re doing addition ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Talks Trump’s Executive Action on Health Care on Air Talk with Larry Mantle
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes joins host Larry Mantle on “Air Talk” to discuss President Trump’s announcement that he will stop paying subsidies to health insurance companies which help pay medical costs for people who are low-income. Click here to listen to ...
Health Care
Here’s how Trump’s health care order affects California
The executive order on health insurance President Donald Trump signed Thursday seeks to do away with many coverage requirements under Obamacare. Trump’s order directs the departments of Labor, Treasury, Health and Human Services and others to change some of the rules governing health insurance. Those rules are expected to be ...
Education
Most California voters polled back private school vouchers for low-income kids
Most California voters agree that low-income families have few choices about where to send their children, and a large majority favor providing government support, through tax credits or vouchers, to send low-income kids to the public or parochial school of their choice, a new poll by BerkeleyIGS/EdSource found. Voters are ...
Education
New Book Sheds Light on Anti-Trump Agenda in Public Schools and Politicization of the Classroom
In his newly published book, The Corrupt Classroom, Lance Izumi of the Pacific Research Institute illustrates how the public school classroom has become increasingly politicized, with liberal teachers indoctrinating students with an anti-Trump and leftist agenda. Izumi makes the case that while many school choice supporters rely on academic school ...
Health Care
Conservatives put Gottlieb, Jindal at top of list to head HHS
Exactly how long Dr. Don Wright occupies the top spot at HHS is anyone’s guess, but conservative policy insiders have wasted little time in compiling a wish list of candidates to become the department’s next permanent secretary. Wright was temporarily anointed to the post when Dr. Tom Price abruptly resigned late last ...
California
Talk of a Ban on Non-Electric Cars
What if California did away altogether with cars powered by fossil fuels? Gov. Jerry Brown is said to have considered the question. According to a report in Bloomberg, he asked a state regulator about a plan by China to phase out sales of fossil-fuel vehicles. “I’ve gotten messages from the ...
Health Care
CBO: Graham-Cassidy Bill Would Reduce Deficit by $133 Billion
The Graham-Cassidy bill, the GOP’s current replacement to the Affordable Care Act, is estimated to reduce the deficit by $133 billion from 2017 to 2026, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the legislation. The legislation’s projected savings are a result of a reduction in Medicaid spending, the elimination ...
How the GOP Tax Plan Will Affect Small Business
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act aims to spur economic growth across the United States by adjusting tax structures for small businesses and corporations. Though the bill is still being debated, amended and adjusted, if it passes, it may have serious implications for you and your business. It can be ...
Analysis: House Tax Plan Would Create Nearly 1 Million New Jobs and Increase GDP By 3.9%
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the new legislation introduced by the House last week, would create nearly one million new jobs and increase gross domestic product by 3.9 percent, according to an analysis from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation. The bill cuts the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent; ...
Killing the gasoline-powered car in California? That’s what one legislator wants by 2040
A clean energy advocate in the California Legislature wants internal combustion vehicles to sputter out of existence on the state’s roads and highways. “The cars that we drive today are based on technology that’s 100 years old,” said Assembly member Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. “It’s almost like we’re doing addition ...
Sally Pipes Talks Trump’s Executive Action on Health Care on Air Talk with Larry Mantle
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes joins host Larry Mantle on “Air Talk” to discuss President Trump’s announcement that he will stop paying subsidies to health insurance companies which help pay medical costs for people who are low-income. Click here to listen to ...
Here’s how Trump’s health care order affects California
The executive order on health insurance President Donald Trump signed Thursday seeks to do away with many coverage requirements under Obamacare. Trump’s order directs the departments of Labor, Treasury, Health and Human Services and others to change some of the rules governing health insurance. Those rules are expected to be ...
Most California voters polled back private school vouchers for low-income kids
Most California voters agree that low-income families have few choices about where to send their children, and a large majority favor providing government support, through tax credits or vouchers, to send low-income kids to the public or parochial school of their choice, a new poll by BerkeleyIGS/EdSource found. Voters are ...
New Book Sheds Light on Anti-Trump Agenda in Public Schools and Politicization of the Classroom
In his newly published book, The Corrupt Classroom, Lance Izumi of the Pacific Research Institute illustrates how the public school classroom has become increasingly politicized, with liberal teachers indoctrinating students with an anti-Trump and leftist agenda. Izumi makes the case that while many school choice supporters rely on academic school ...
Conservatives put Gottlieb, Jindal at top of list to head HHS
Exactly how long Dr. Don Wright occupies the top spot at HHS is anyone’s guess, but conservative policy insiders have wasted little time in compiling a wish list of candidates to become the department’s next permanent secretary. Wright was temporarily anointed to the post when Dr. Tom Price abruptly resigned late last ...
Talk of a Ban on Non-Electric Cars
What if California did away altogether with cars powered by fossil fuels? Gov. Jerry Brown is said to have considered the question. According to a report in Bloomberg, he asked a state regulator about a plan by China to phase out sales of fossil-fuel vehicles. “I’ve gotten messages from the ...
CBO: Graham-Cassidy Bill Would Reduce Deficit by $133 Billion
The Graham-Cassidy bill, the GOP’s current replacement to the Affordable Care Act, is estimated to reduce the deficit by $133 billion from 2017 to 2026, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the legislation. The legislation’s projected savings are a result of a reduction in Medicaid spending, the elimination ...
