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Rejecting Push to Restrict Gig Entrepreneurship Key to Driving Innovation, Economic Growth, Higher Incomes
PRI | Wayne Winegarden
February 16, 2021
“The Small Business Gig,” the fourth paper in PRI’s Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity series, explores how the gig economy promotes small business growth and development. Previous papers in the series explored how entrepreneurship lifts people out of poverty, and how entrepreneurship can alleviate America’s health care challenges.
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PRI Next Round Podcast:
California’s Economic Recovery – PRI Sacramento Policy Conference
PRI Next Round Podcast
February 16, 2021
Policymakers in Sacramento and Washington are focusing on how to turn the economy around, keep businesses afloat, and help people stay employed amidst the ongoing pandemic. Elected officials, policy insiders, and free market economists discuss efforts to retain and create new jobs in California, the federal stimulus legislation, and other reforms to reduce costs and economic burdens on employers and employees.
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President Biden, It’s Time To Admit Obamacare’s Flaws
Forbes | Sally C. Pipes
February 15, 2021
Obamacare’s strict rules and regulations are responsible for these premium spikes. The law prohibits insurers from charging older people more than three times what they charge younger ones. Yet older Americans’ claims costs are higher than that multiple. Those 55 and older account for more than half of all health spending. Patients between 19 and 34 years of age are responsible for just 11% of spending.
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Cheers to Giving Restaurants Freedom to Sell To-Go Cocktails with Dinner
PRI Right By the Bay | Tim Anaya
February 17, 2021
Some of these restaurants have been pretty innovative in their takeout orders. My brother is a general manager of one of the Melting Pot fondue restaurants in Virginia. He told me about their to-go fondue, which I have tried at their Sacramento location and thought was terrific.
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Lessons from New Mexico Show How Fracking Moratorium Could Harm California’s Economy
PRI Right By the Bay | McKenzie Richards
February 16, 2021
It is true, as candidate Harris stated, that President Biden has not banned fracking outright. In fact, he cannot ban the practice completely without an act of Congress. However, on January 27th, 2021, now President Biden imposed a 60-day moratorium on all new oil and gas permits to drill on federal lands. Fracking companies can continue to drill on state and private lands if states allow.
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Gavin Newsom’s Worst Month
Townhall | Kerry Jackson
February 17, 2021
If Newsom’s winter campaign is successful in stopping the recall, is payback far behind? While he’s clearly one of the more calculating politicians of the day, Newsom has not shown himself to be particularly vindictive. Yet, since the recall drive was accelerated by Californians enraged by the governor’s hypocrisy of attending a party at Napa’s French Laundry while laying down the most freedom-devouring pandemic rules in the U.S., it’s not unreasonable to imagine him reimposing his stay-at-home order as an act of retribution.
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