Newsom UBI Plan: Expanding Government Dependency Without Increasing Economic Empowerment
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Wayne Winegarden and Tim Anaya
May 27, 2021
If the Governor read Right by the Bay, he wouldn’t need to spend $35 million to learn that basic income programs as envisioned by Tubbs simply don’t provide economic empowerment. He’d already know that the report released earlier this year championing the “success” of Tubbs’ effort is seriously flawed.
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California DAs Hope to Slow the Flow of Early Inmate Releases
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Kerry Jackson
May 14, 2021
According to the Associated Press, inmates eligible to use good-behavior credits to shorten their prison time include both violent and repeat offenders. Their terms will be cut by one-third of their original sentences. In the previous four years, good-behavior credits could not be used to reduce prison terms by more than one-fifth.
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PRI Podcast: Jorge Galicia – The Perils of Socialism
This podcast features Venezuelan Jorge Galicia, a law student who escaped his country and is now speaking to college students nationwide about his experience. Jorge recounts Venezuela’s path, beginning with socialist policies such as free college and free health care, then descending to the authoritarian regime it is today. This podcast was first aired for PRI’s Young Leaders Circle. The interview was conducted by Evan Harris, director of YLC.
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Newsom’s Savings Account for Students Needs to Be at the Front End, Not at the Back
PRI Right By the Bay Blog | Lance Izumi
May 24, 2021
According to the governor’s press release: “To make college more accessible to low-income California kids, the Governor proposes investing $2 billion to seed college savings accounts for vulnerable students currently enrolled in K-12 public schools, including a $500 base deposit for students from low-income families, English learners and foster youth, and a $500 supplemental deposit for foster and homeless youth. The savings account can be used later in life for higher education or to start their own business.”
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California Has Millions of Acre-feet of Water Waiting to Be Built
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Evan Harris
May 26, 2021
Steven Greenhut, author of the PRI book Winning the Water Wars, talked about Newsom’s proposed water spending on Valley Public Radio recently, saying “a lot of it is about information and conservation, and I’m not against any of these things…but my argument in my writing is we need to promote long-term policies of water abundance that put more water into the state’s giant plumbing system.”
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California’s Door-Knock Vaccination Squad: Maybe Just A Bit Creepy?
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Kerry Jackson
May 28, 2021
When the Bee published, the “door-to-door efforts” were “taking place in Alameda, Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Merced, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Sacramento, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Tulare and Ventura counties.” At that point, canvassers had “so far knocked on more than 231,000 doors, completed more than 1.3 million calls, and have made 13,000 appointments.”
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