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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.
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Health Care
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Read the latest on the 340B Drug Pricing Program
Reforming 340B to Serve the Interests of Patients, Not Institutions
Pacific Research Institute
July 26, 2024
By Anthony M. DiGiorgio, DO, MHA and Wayne Winegarden, PhD Enacted by the US Congress in 1992 to help entities serving lower-income and uninsured patients stretch their resources, the 340B Drug Pricing Program mandated drug companies give large discounts to covered entities (CEs). Judging the program on ...
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Biden’s rent-control plan will only make America’s housing crisis worse
Kerry Jackson
July 22, 2024
President Joe Biden is suggesting that a federal limit on annual rent increases in residential units will ease housing costs. This is what happens when economist Milton Friedman isn’t “running the show”: Policymakers follow ideas that make the problem they say they’re solving infinitely worse. “While ...
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California Reform
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The Prop 47 Budgetary Shell Game – Who you Gonna Believe? Them, or your Lying Eyes?
Steve Smith
July 26, 2024
In 2014, Californians voted overwhelmingly to pass Proposition 47, known by its supporters title the “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act.” Prop 47’s advocates made a strong case, promising that both crime and incarceration rates would decline. At the same time, supporters argued that “massive” savings ...
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Education
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Lance Izumi – The Great Classroom Collapse
Pacific Research Institute
July 16, 2024
Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, joins us to discuss his latest book The Great Classroom Collapse, which investigates the implosion of rigor and learning in America’s schools. He shares the stories of some of the parents, teachers, and policymakers he profiles ...
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Environment
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Learn about the high costs of California's green mandates
Los Angeles’ Costly Path to an All “Clean Power” Future
Kerry Jackson
July 22, 2024
California’s energy transition is moving along about as smoothly as Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. Both are incoherent, have encountered hurdles they can’t scale and have made promises that can’t be kept. California’s race to produce greenhouse-gas emission-free power by 2045, for instance, has hit a ...
Business & Economics
Read the latest on Gov. Newsom's national ambitions
President Newsom, For The Power And The Glory
Kerry Jackson
July 9, 2024
Spending Watch
Californians Have Little to Show for All That Government Spending
Wayne Winegarden
July 2, 2024
Fast food restaurants are raising prices after minimum wage hike
Their Pleasure: Legislators Cook Up A Law That Burns Fast Food
Kerry Jackson
June 19, 2024