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California’s weak job market is a cry for help. Is anyone listening?

California’s job market continues to suffer from largely self-inflicted wounds, despite the fact that the overall economy is growing. In April, Gov. Gavin Newsom projected that California’s economy had grown larger than Japan’s, making it the fourth largest in the world (if it were its own economy, which it’s not). ...
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Fact Checking The Governor on Manufacturing

While announcing last month the state’s Regional Investment Initiative “to fund ready-to-go projects,” Newsom’s office declared that “California is the nation’s top state for” a number of economic sectors, including manufacturing. It’s a recurring message from the governor’s press team. It is true that California has the most manufacturing jobs in the country. Federal data ...
Commentary

Eliminate regs that drive doctor shortage

Doctor’s appointments will be hard to come by over the next decade, according to new data from the Association of American Medical Colleges. By 2036, the organization estimates that the United States will be short as many as 86,000 physicians. This is a shortage of not just doctors but medical ...
Business & Economics

Read the latest on the federal PRO Act

California’s War On Gig Work Is About To Devastate The Rest Of The Country

Like wreckage following a tornado, California’s effort to eliminate gig work trailed Julie Su as she failed upward from the state’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency secretary to Washington, where she’s the acting labor secretary. In her previous capacity, Su was a hardline supporter of California’s Assembly Bill 5, which ...
Business & Economics

Nippon Steel’s Purchase Of U.S. Steel Will Improve The Economy

There has been a rare showing of bipartisanship over the past month; unfortunately, the consensus is founded on economic myths that, if acted upon, would cost jobs, increase inflationary pressures, and weaken economic growth. At issue is Nippon Steel’s offer to purchase U.S. Steel for $14.9 billion – a surprisingly ...
Business & Economics

Read how California's AB 5 is going national

War on Gig Workers Goes National

Much of the resistance to Julie Su’s nomination as secretary of the Department of Labor has been based on her record as California’s labor commissioner—in particular, her role in the state’s effort to outlaw gig work. Her patrons have deflected the criticism as if it were baseless. But almost a year ...
Commentary

Read about recent healthcare professional needs

Scope-of-practice reforms can address doctor shortage

America is facing a chronic doctor shortage. Solving that problem will require not just more doctors but a much bigger role for advanced-practice nurses in our healthcare system. A 2021 report found that the United States will need nearly as many as 48,000 more primary care doctors by 2034 to ...
Business & Economics

Overregulation hinders New Jersey’s charities

By Wayne Winegarden & Regina Egea New Jersey has long been ranked as one of the most expensive places to live and worst to do business. Add to that list a new ranking of the state as one of the worst states to operate a charity. With over 50,000 nonprofit organizations in ...
Business & Economics

The Gender Pay Gap Isn’t Caused by Sexism. It’s the Result of Women’s Choices

Last week, U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh traveled to the annual gathering of elites in Davos, Switzerland, to call for American businesses to add women to their leadership teams in order to close the gender pay gap. Get more girlbosses into the C-suite, the thinking goes, and they’ll ensure women’s work ...
Blog

Would You Like An Apple Pie With That? No Thanks, I Can’t Afford It

Less than two days before California’s Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act was to become law – on Jan. 1 – Sacramento Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne W.L. Chang placed a hold on the legislation, temporarily restraining the state “from implementing, enforcing, or taking any other action to effectuate Assembly ...
California

California’s weak job market is a cry for help. Is anyone listening?

California’s job market continues to suffer from largely self-inflicted wounds, despite the fact that the overall economy is growing. In April, Gov. Gavin Newsom projected that California’s economy had grown larger than Japan’s, making it the fourth largest in the world (if it were its own economy, which it’s not). ...
Blog

Fact Checking The Governor on Manufacturing

While announcing last month the state’s Regional Investment Initiative “to fund ready-to-go projects,” Newsom’s office declared that “California is the nation’s top state for” a number of economic sectors, including manufacturing. It’s a recurring message from the governor’s press team. It is true that California has the most manufacturing jobs in the country. Federal data ...
Commentary

Eliminate regs that drive doctor shortage

Doctor’s appointments will be hard to come by over the next decade, according to new data from the Association of American Medical Colleges. By 2036, the organization estimates that the United States will be short as many as 86,000 physicians. This is a shortage of not just doctors but medical ...
Business & Economics

Read the latest on the federal PRO Act

California’s War On Gig Work Is About To Devastate The Rest Of The Country

Like wreckage following a tornado, California’s effort to eliminate gig work trailed Julie Su as she failed upward from the state’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency secretary to Washington, where she’s the acting labor secretary. In her previous capacity, Su was a hardline supporter of California’s Assembly Bill 5, which ...
Business & Economics

Nippon Steel’s Purchase Of U.S. Steel Will Improve The Economy

There has been a rare showing of bipartisanship over the past month; unfortunately, the consensus is founded on economic myths that, if acted upon, would cost jobs, increase inflationary pressures, and weaken economic growth. At issue is Nippon Steel’s offer to purchase U.S. Steel for $14.9 billion – a surprisingly ...
Business & Economics

Read how California's AB 5 is going national

War on Gig Workers Goes National

Much of the resistance to Julie Su’s nomination as secretary of the Department of Labor has been based on her record as California’s labor commissioner—in particular, her role in the state’s effort to outlaw gig work. Her patrons have deflected the criticism as if it were baseless. But almost a year ...
Commentary

Read about recent healthcare professional needs

Scope-of-practice reforms can address doctor shortage

America is facing a chronic doctor shortage. Solving that problem will require not just more doctors but a much bigger role for advanced-practice nurses in our healthcare system. A 2021 report found that the United States will need nearly as many as 48,000 more primary care doctors by 2034 to ...
Business & Economics

Overregulation hinders New Jersey’s charities

By Wayne Winegarden & Regina Egea New Jersey has long been ranked as one of the most expensive places to live and worst to do business. Add to that list a new ranking of the state as one of the worst states to operate a charity. With over 50,000 nonprofit organizations in ...
Business & Economics

The Gender Pay Gap Isn’t Caused by Sexism. It’s the Result of Women’s Choices

Last week, U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh traveled to the annual gathering of elites in Davos, Switzerland, to call for American businesses to add women to their leadership teams in order to close the gender pay gap. Get more girlbosses into the C-suite, the thinking goes, and they’ll ensure women’s work ...
Blog

Would You Like An Apple Pie With That? No Thanks, I Can’t Afford It

Less than two days before California’s Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act was to become law – on Jan. 1 – Sacramento Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne W.L. Chang placed a hold on the legislation, temporarily restraining the state “from implementing, enforcing, or taking any other action to effectuate Assembly ...
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