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PRI’s work encompasses countless studies, commentary, books, podcasts, blog posts, and events surrounding our mission to promote the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility. Our areas of research include health care, education, environment, innovation, California reform, and business economics. Explore our topics below.
Health Care
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The $3.3 Trillion Case For Bayh-Dole
The federal government once held roughly 28,000 patents on inventions arising from taxpayer-supported research. Almost none of them went anywhere. By 1980, the government had managed to license fewer than 5% of them. Then Congress changed the rules. The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 allowed universities, ...
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The Gordon Chang Report: India Now the World’s Swing Vote
READ THE PDF India Now the World’s Swing Vote China is mobilizing multilateral groups and sending them into battle against the United States. There is, however, one fundamental problem for an ambitious Beijing: India, which is now playing a pivotal role in the region and ...
California Reform
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Another Bad Idea From Sacramento: Bailing Out Local Media
Sacramento seems to think that we can’t have newspapers without government. A recently signed bill aims to provide targeted government relief for struggling local media. It’s an improper, and impractical, use of taxpayers’ hard-earned money. Under Assembly Bill 2222, local news outlets will receive a ...
Education
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NEW PRI Book Tells Stories of Students, Parents and Educators Fighting Back Against DEI
SACRAMENTO – Students, parents, teachers, school board members and college professors across the country are challenging controversial so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies (DEI) and winning. Their stories are at the heart of a new book released today by the nonpartisan, California-based, free-market think tank, ...
Environment
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California court rewinds new AEWR methodology
A U.S. District Court in California has upended the new U.S. Department of Labor wage calculation methodology for the H-2A visa program in the United States. The judge ordered DOL to create a new methodology while leaving the current wage structure in place. Under the ...