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Insurance Crisis Moves From Hinterlands To Big Cities
Free Cities Center | May 3, 2024 | John Seiler
The home-insurance crisis hitting California and other states is now thwarting cities’ efforts to house the homeless. All mortgages require insurance up front. No insurance, no homes for the homeless, or anybody. That directly will affect the Proposition 1 ([link removed]) bond voters passed March 5, which will spend $6.4 billion on mental health care and, according to the title voters read on their ballots, “provides housing for the homeless.”
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Medical Debt-Relief Can Backfire on Patients
Newsmax | Sally Pipes | May 7, 2024
Americans collectively owe some $220 billion ([link removed]) in medical debt. In response, a growing number of states, including New Jersey ([link removed]) and Connecticut ([link removed]) , are using public funds to relieve those debts.
Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pa., proposed doing something similar ([link removed]) in his state earlier this year.
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How Lowered Academic Standards Hurts California's Students
Next Round Podcast | PRI | May 6, 2024
From PRI’s 2024 Sacramento policy conference, senior director of education studies Lance Izumi moderates a panel discussing the implosion of academic rigor in California’s schools, and how that affects California’s students – particularly those most vulnerable – and impacts the state’s economic competitiveness. A preview of his upcoming PRI book The Great Classroom Collapse, Lance talks with parent activists who share their stories about challenging the education status quo in their communities. Learn about reforms to ensure students can graduate and are prepared to enter the workforce. Plus Tim discusses the pro-Hamas demonstrations at UCLA that shocked the nation and breaks down the Sacramento political finger pointing that took place in the aftermath of the riots.
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