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Listen to PRI's Next Round Podcast: Former Speechwriters on Pres. Biden’s Inaugural Address
PRI's Next Round Podcast
January 20, 2021
PRI former speechwriters offer their perspective on President Biden’s inaugural speech. Lance Izumi was speechwriter to Attorney General Edwin Meese and Gov. Deukmejian and is now PRI’s senior director of education studies, Tim Anaya was speechwriter to Gov. Schwarzenegger and other California lawmakers and now PRI senior director of communications, and Rowena Itchon was a speechwriter to Gov. Wilson and a research assistant in Pres. Reagan’s speechwriting office, and now senior vice president at PRI.
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National School Choice Week 2021: How Students Can Overcome Learning Disabilities Through Science and School Choice ([link removed])
Join PRI for a special webinar with Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education in conversation with Mia Giordano and her mom, Christine Zanello, the subjects of Izumi's latest book A Kite in a Hurricane No More.
Speakers:
Mia Giordano
Christine Zanello
Lance Izumi
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 11 am Pacific Via Zoom ([link removed])
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PRI’s Wayne Winegarden in U.S. News and World Report, “What Is Universal Basic Income?”
U.S. News and World Report | Maryalene LaPonsie
January 15, 2021
The concept of UBI is simple. “It’s a check from the government every month to everyone with absolutely no justification,” says Wayne Winegarden, senior fellow in business and economics at the Pacific Research Institute, a free market think tank based in San Francisco. In other words, it is money distributed by the government to everyone, regardless of their income or need. . .
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New Senate Majority Means Blue State Bailout on Horizon
PRI Right By the Bay Blog | Tim Anaya
January 18, 2021
Also expect Schumer, the soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader, to again try to repeal the state and local tax deduction cap, which PRI’s Wayne Winegarden has shown amounts to taxpayers in low-tax states subsidizing higher taxes and spending in states like California and New York.
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Let The Failures Of Government Vaccine Distribution Be A Warning
Forbes.com | Sally C. Pipes
January 19, 2021
Dysfunction at all levels of government is to blame for these deaths. After this abject disaster, it’s a wonder that anyone could ever want to put the government in charge of the entire healthcare system.
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It’s the Payment System
PRI Right By the Bay Blog | Wayne Winegarden
January 19, 2021
There are two key pricing data for drugs – the list price and the net price. The list prices are announced by manufacturers, but are not the prices that insurers pay on behalf of patients. Insurers negotiate significant concessions and rebates from manufacturers. . .
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