PRI’s Policy Alert
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Corporate profits are socially responsible
Fox News | Sally C. Pipes
August 26, 2019
Signed by almost 200 of the most powerful CEOs in America, the statement “affirms the essential role corporations can play in improving our society,” according to one of its signatories. Specifically, it suggests that companies should focus on serving the needs of “stakeholders” like customers, employees, and communities as much as those of their shareholders. That’s ludicrous.
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Andy McCarthy on his new book Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency
August 26, 2019
National Review’s Andy McCarthy joins us to discuss his new book The Ball of Collusion. No one is better than McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who earned the Justice Department’s highest honor, to provide perspective on the Trump investigation into Russian “collusion.”
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Technology Can Make Rural America Healthier
Lewiston Sun Journal | Sally C. Pipes
August 26, 2019
Buttigieg wants to spend billions of taxpayer dollars expanding public health insurance programs and have the government pay doctors to move to rural communities. Such a program would be expensive and take years to make an impact.
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New Research Shows Link Between Job Losses and a Community's Social Ills
Right By the Bay | Damon Dunn
August 27, 2019
Instead of honestly and forthrightly addressing the very real issues plaguing too many American communities, the political response has been to either ignore the issue entirely or, even worse, exploit its repercussion for political gain.
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More Competition Will Improve Drug Affordability
Forbes | Wayne Winegarden
August 26, 2019
Just as important, when most patients receive a prescription, it is affordable. Consider that 90% of all prescriptions dispensed in 2018 were generic medicines. According to the Association for Accessible Medicines, 93% of these medicines were filled at a price of $20 or less.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Thatcher Gala Dinner with Keynote Speaker Peter Thiel and Special Award Recipient Chris Cox
On Saturday, November 9, 2019, PRI will host its 8th Annual Baroness Thatcher Gala Dinner at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa in Newport Beach, California. We are thrilled to be celebrating our 40th Anniversary with entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel as our keynote speaker. PRI Senior Fellow Dr. Steven Hayward will lead an in-depth Q&A session with Peter Thiel that will address issues such as political bias at technology companies and campus free speech.
At the Gala, PRI board member Paul D. Tosetti, a partner at Latham & Watkins, will present the 2019 Baroness Thatcher Liberty Award to the Honorable Christopher Cox, a former PRI board member, for his commitment to liberty and for his embodiment of the principles of Baroness Margaret Thatcher.
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Doors open at 6 p.m.
Newport Beach Marriott Hotel and Spa
900 Newport Center Drive
Newport Beach, California
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Young Leaders Circle event: Is the Gig Up? Why Independent Contractors and the Companies Who Use Them Should Worry
Join subject matter experts from the San Francisco Chronicle, California Chamber of Commerce, and more for a panel discussion about the gig economy and how independent contractors will be impacted by California Assembly Bill 5. Drinks and appetizers will be served. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the panel discussion begins at 6:15 p.m. Audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions and meet panel participants after the discussion.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Neyborly at Union Square
600 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA
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