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Battle over “progressive” solutions leaves independent contractors on edge

The Orange County Register | Kerry Jackson
September 11, 2019
 
The bill won’t outlaw freelance work. But by setting the bar to determine which workers can be independent contractors and which workers must be hired employees so impossibly high, it will place severe limits on worker freedom.
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Colin Sharkey – What Do California Teachers Think About Their Newly-Won Worker Freedoms?
September 9, 2019

Association of American Educators executive director Colin Sharkey joins us to discuss a new survey from their Teacher Freedom project on the attitudes of teachers one year after the historic Janus decision and shares insight on what teachers think about their union, their newly-won worker freedoms, and whether more disaffected teachers will exercise their new right to quit their union.
 

Sally C. Pipes Comments on Push to Expand Medi-Cal for Illegals

CALmatters | Elizabeth Aguilera
September 10, 2019

Democratic legislators are advancing a bill that aims to provide free health care to low-income undocumented seniors — an idea that they floated earlier this year, but which failed to make it into the state budget because of concerns over its cost. . .

“It’s not fair to those who are taxpayers and those who are middle- and lower-income and have a lot of stress in paying for healthcare. Why would they need to pay more to subsidize these people?” Pipes said. “They (legislators) didn’t get the $3.4 billion to cover all of them. So this is a stepping stone in getting there.”


Is Universal Basic Income Really a “Freedom Dividend”?

Right By the Bay Blog | Tim Anaya
September 12, 2019

We’ve written previously on Right by the Bay about the universal basic income push in the City of Stockton.  Launched earlier this year, the plan overseen by Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs relies on private foundation funds for now to give $500-a-month stipends to selected city residents.  This basically amounts to handing out people free cash to nothing.

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Damon Dunn Talks Socialist Policies on the Lars Larson Show

The Lars Larson Show | Damon Dunn
September 6, 2019

Damon Dunn sits down with Lars Larson Show to discuss his new PRI brief on why socialist policies cater to the poor and how the left takes advantage of this.

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Organic Industry Anti-Pesticide Propaganda Threatens to Cripple American Agriculture

Genetic Literacy Project | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
September 12, 2019

The most recent example is the article, “What the pesticides in our urine tell us about organic food,” by Kendra Klein and Anna Lappé, two well-known agents of the organic industry, in The Guardian. Their misleading half-truths and outright misstatements offer a teaching moment about “advocacy research” that is designed to obtain a preordained, spurious result that can then be used as propaganda to distort consumers’ choices in a free market.


UPCOMING EVENTS

See former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the Commonwealth Club in SF

Listen to Dr. Rice provide a thoughtful diplomatic analysis of the last 40 years and details the design for a more peaceful and prosperous world. She draws upon her experience and explains the risk, uncertainty and drama of how states were divided and societies were transformed.

Wed, September 18, 2019
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
Santa Clara Convention Center
5001 Great America Pkwy.
Santa Clara, CA 95054


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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

Hear subject matter experts from the San Francisco Chronicle, California Chamber of Commerce, and National Federation of Independent Business 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. and program begins at 6:15 p.m.
Neyborly at Union Square
590 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA


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