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Entrepreneurship Key for California's Economic Recovery
Pacific Research Institute
April 2, 2020
By eliminating government-created barriers to opportunity, state and federal lawmakers can make it easier for those who are suddenly unemployed to earn a living from home or start a new home-based business.
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Coronavirus Shows State Push for Public Transit is Hazardous to our Health
GV Wire | Kerry Jackson
March 31, 2020
As the coronavirus was becoming a global fear, the Society for Human Resource Management was suggesting that companies encourage employees to avoid public transportation whenever possible and instead “walk, cycle, drive a car” as a means to control infectious disease. Compared to mass transit, app-based travel is even a healthier choice. A doctor told the New York Times ridesharing is “likely low risk.”
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Amidst Coronavirus-Fueled Economic Downturn, State Leaders Must Suspend Government Barriers to Opportunity
Right By the Bay Blog | Tim Anaya
April 1, 2020
The problems caused by AB 5 have grown exponentially now that the kind of work performed by many independent contractors – such as the work of sign language interpreters, online tutors, those who provide health care services, those who deliver groceries or meals, and many others – is even more important amidst the coronavirus.
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Daniel Kolkey – What the Governor Can Do to Help Californians in the Next Fire Season
PRI Next Round Podcast
April 3, 2020
This podcast is a recorded lecture from PRI’s second annual policy conference in Sacramento. The speaker is Judge Daniel Kolkey, a partner with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He served as an Associate Justice on the California Court of Appeals and Legal Affairs Secretary for Governor Pete Wilson. California is approaching warmer weather – that means fire season. Judge Kolkey believes that the governor can help mitigate future power outages and wildfires through his executive powers. In this lecture, he makes his case.
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Not Even The Threat Of Spreading COVID-19 Can Change California’s Plastic Bag Ban
Right By the Bay Blog | Kerry Jackson
April 2, 2020
Reusable bags are enough of a threat that some grocers, in California and elsewhere, are not allowing their employees place items directly into them. Customers who bring reusable bags into the store have to sack up their own purchases.
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