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California’s War On Gig Economy Jobs Goes National
Real Clear Markets | Kerry Jackson
March 11, 2021
Not even the exemptions added last summer and the passage of California’s Proposition 22, which carved out special rules for app-based drivers, have been enough to change attitudes about the law. It still afflicts an untold number of Californians who need and want to work but are unable to simply because the government has restricted their freedom to choose the job structure that suits them.
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CA Insider
Interviews Lance Izumi
CA Insider | Siyamak Khorrami
March 10, 2021
Lance Izumi joins California Insider from the Epoch Times to discuss California’s recent $6.6 billion plan to encourage schools to reopen, the science behind re-opening, and how the deal could fall flat.
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Stimulus Plan a Bailout Bonanza for California
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Tim Anaya
March 11, 2021
In music to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ears, a virtual Brink’s truck is about deliver a mountain of cash from Congress to California, to the tune of $42.6 billion according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. State government will reportedly get $26.1 billion in aid, while local governments will get about $16 billion.
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No More Streets Of San Francisco, And Other Fronts On The War On Cars
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Kerry Jackson
March 9, 2021
The warriors – a collection of elected officials, bureaucrats, everyday Californians, and private interest groups – will deny there’s a war on cars, just a necessary campaign against the wrong kind of cars, the sort that have internal-combustion engines. While there is a crusade to force as many Californians in electric vehicles as possible, the warriors’ dreams go far beyond that.
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Is Stockton’s Basic Income Scheme Actually Working?
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Tim Anaya
March 10, 2021
Former Mayor Michael Tubbs, who lost re-election in November to Republican Kevin Lincoln, returned to the national media spotlight to herald the news. “Let’s scream that from the mountaintops,” Tubbs told MSNBC last week. “The $500 allowed people to be entrepreneurial and bet on themselves.”
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