Study: Climate Change Laws in New York and California Are Hurting Poor People the Most By Jason Hopkins A new report finds that climate change-related regulation in Democratic-controlled states is negatively impacting minority communities, while not effectively lowering green house gas emissions. The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) —...
Watch PRI Communications Director Tim Anaya discuss the new state solar home mandate on KPBS "Evening Edition". Anaya makes the case that the mandate is another example of state government legislating energy poverty and increasing energy burdens on poor, rural and minority communities....
Can Trump yank GM’s electric vehicle tax credit? By Rachel Layne On Tuesday, President Donald Trump vented his anger at General Motors after the company announced several plant closings and more than 14,000 layoffs. The president threatened to eliminate tax credits for GM's electric vehicles along with other tax...
By Bethany Blankley The latest report calling for occupational licensing reforms joins others in saying that strict licensing requirements cost millions of jobs, billions of dollars in economic costs, and reduced overall GDP . . . “All too often, the licensing requirements are an obstacle for qualified...
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discusses the future of health care reform with Democrats poised to take control of the House of Representatives with John Cardillo on "America Talks Live" on Newsmax TV....
'Reinsurance' Obamacare fix wins bipartisan support in Senate By Tom Howell, Jr. Sen. Joe Manchin III, a West Virginia Democrat who just won re-election in one of the country’s reddest states, has an idea to fix Obamacare — call in President Trump. The West Virginian is among senators...
Argues That SEC Should Ensure Shareholder Interests Are Top Priority in Investment Decisions SAN FRANCISCO – Policy reforms should be enacted to ensure that proxy advisory firms promote fund managers’ fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders and increase transparency over the firms’ biases and conflicts of interest, the...
Our friends at the "Bookworm Room" blog recently wrote a great post on PRI's 2018 annual gala with keynote speaker Mark Steyn and Sir Antony Fisher Freedom Award recipient Victor Davis Hanson. For everyone who couldn't make the attend, it is a very detailed account...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfxX55ppb1w Watch PRI's Wayne Winegarden debate "the future of American retirement" with former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and others at a recent Pepperdine University School of Public Policy forum in Washington, DC....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenQJWhE9oc&feature=youtu.be Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes make the case against single-payer health care on "The Accad and Koka Report."...