Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow in Education and Senior Director of PRI's Center for Education, was asked by the Sacramento Bee for his comments on a statement by California gubernatorial candidate John Cox that teacher should be "paid like rock stars and baseball players." Read...
Medicare Expansion Steps Into the Political Limelight Democrats are running on Medicare for All—or extending the seniors’ program to the merely middle-aged—or resurrecting a ‘public option’. Republicans say Medicare expansion would mean government intrusion and inefficiency. But politics aside, how would these Medicare expansions work? By Timothy...
Trump, Obama spar over economy. Who's right? By Niv Elis By many metrics, the economy is booming, and both President Trump and former President Obama want you to know that they are the one to thank. Under Trump, the stock market hit new highs, the unemployment rate dropped to lows...
Is California a Good Role Model? By Thomas B. Edsall Conservatives argue that California’s liberal politics have failed. They point out that by one key measure the state now has the highest poverty rate in the nation and they argue that its liberal minimum wage and restrictive...
Cheaper Prescription Drugs Through Deregulation, Not Importation By Jared Whitley Healthcare is frequently a sore spot for the United States in international comparisons. We conservatives like to insist that “America is No. 1,” and when leftists want to take the wind out of our sails, the first...
Former Hoover Fellow’s Research Will Focus on Genetic Engineering, Evidence-Based Medicine, Regulatory Reform SAN FRANCISCO – The Pacific Research Institute, California’s leading free-market think tank, today announced the hiring of nationally-renowned scholar and researcher and former Hoover Institution fellow Dr. Henry Miller as a Senior Fellow...
Watch PRI Communications Director Tim Anaya discuss the Legislature's passage of SB 100, which would impose a 100 percent renewable energy mandate in California by 2045, on the KCRA 3 News in Sacramento. Click here to watch the interview...
1 in 5 Californians is Poor. Housing Prices Are to Blame By Nick Fouriezos In the Netflix television show Altered Carbon, the fears of rampant income inequality are fully realized. High society is taken literally, as the rich and wealthy live in a cloud city in the sky. The series...
Trump Administration Considers Allowing Some Drug Imports By Christopher Talgo U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar has directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish a working group to weigh the risks and rewards of drug importation, which is currently banned in the...
The #M4A Price Tag Makes it DOA By Elizabeth Wright Continuing with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s declaration that August should be healthcare month, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) is taking a look at Senator Bernie Sander’s (I-Vt) idea that we should have Medicare for All, colloquially...