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UBI will not lift people out of poverty
Spending Watch | December 17, 2024 | Wayne Winegarden & Nikhil Agarwal

The growing UBI experiments across California are disconcerting due to the program’s well documented flaws.

While layering a UBI onto the current income public assistance programs is troubling, replacing the current system with a simplified cash-based system is worth exploring.

Such a system, which should include job search and education requirements, would cost less, simplify programmatic administration, help the needy more efficiently, and encourage work and economic advancement.

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The PRI All Stars 2024 Year End Awards
Next Round Podcast | PRI All Stars | December 16, 2024

The PRI All Stars are back to hand out their annual year end awards to the biggest winners and losers of 2024.

What were the year’s best and worst ideas? What were the fairest and bummest wraps of the year? Who is destined for stardom and oblivion?

Sit back and enjoy the honorees selected by the PRI All Stars, handed out in the style of the annual McLaughlin Group year-end awards.

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Congress must act now to stop Medicare physician pay cuts
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Sally C. Pipes | December 16, 2024

Doctors in private practice could soon be ringing in the new year by reducing
the services they offer, laying off staff, or even preparing to close their
practices.

That’s because the federal government is set to slash the reimbursements they receive
from Medicare come January. The proposed cuts would have devastating
consequences for ordinary Americans’ ability to access health care — unless Congress
steps in to stop them.
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You are invited to attend the:

Luncheon & Book Signing with Christopher Cox
Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn

Tuesday, January 28, 2025
11:30am - Registration opens
12:00pm - Luncheon & remarks
1:00pm - Q&A
1:15pm - Book signing

The Pacific Club
4110 MacArthur Blvd.
Newport Beach, CA

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