Below are remarks delivered by PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes at the annual national meeting of the Adam Smith Society on June 9, 2021. She spoke about free market health care solutions. Thank you so very...
Board of Education Opposes Bill That Takes Aim at Charter Schools By Jack Bradley The Orange County Board of Education passed a resolution June 2 to oppose a bill that it claims would harm charter schools. Introduced by California Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell (D-Long Beach), AB 1316 will move through the State Assembly in...
As the drought worsens, let’s not be stupid By Jay Evensen The summer of thirst has begun. Maybe you won’t find yourself short of drinking water — we can hope so, anyway — but everything around you won’t be so lucky. Your lawn, your dirty car and the...
Campaign Will Show What U.S. Could Face if California Progressive Agenda Goes National SACRAMENTO – With California recently declared by the Los Angeles Times as “the de-facto policy think tank of the Biden-Harris Administration,” the Pacific Research Institute – California’s leading free-market think tank –...
Increased Energy Competition Will Lower Costs, Increase Innovation, Better Address Climate Change Aiming to provide market-based analyses and perspective to educate policymakers and the public about policies impacting competitive electricity markets, the Pacific Research Institute – a California-based, nonpartisan, free-market think tank, today launched the...
Inflation is seen as the stock market's boogeyman as the economy recovers. We asked 3 experts if the fears are warranted - or if concerns are overblown. By Will Daniel On April 29, new data showed that a key measure of inflation monitored by the Fed -...
Steven Greenhut, author of PRI's Winning the Water Wars, joined "Valley Edition" host Kathleen Schock to discuss the California drought and Governor Gavin Newsom's drought emergency declaration. Greenhut talks about his book, the drought's impact on the Central Valley and the state, and what Californians...
What did he get right? Reactions to Gov. Newsom's K-12 budget By Andrew Reed and Alexander Montero EdSource asked education leaders, advocates and observers to comment on Gov. Newsom’s record-level, revised 2021-22 budget for K-12 education. We wanted to know what they thought would most advance students’ recovery from the...
Can We Ever Trust Our Public Health Officials Again? By Marisa Herman Healthcare institutions who've historically enjoyed a high level of public trust may soon face a steep erosion of the American people's confidence after more than a year in the spotlight for a coronavirus pandemic that...
Public bank bill puts state where it doesn’t belong By Orange County Register Editorial Board California lawmakers have a ready solution for almost any problem, no matter how large or small: Create a new government bureaucracy to administer some “landmark” program. Yet after the new agency is...