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To Flip the Switch on Global Warming, Embrace Competitive Energy Markets
Real Clear Markets | Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D.
October 20, 2021
If the Biden administration really wants to make progress in its stated goal of expanding America’s clean energy future, it should embrace competitive electricity markets. Expanding electricity competition would be a rare win-win policy that would improve consumer welfare and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
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Wayne Winegarden and Kerry Jackson – California Migrating
PRI Next Round
October 18, 2021
Our guests in this podcast are Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow in business and economics and Kerry Jackson, PRI fellow on California Reform. Wayne and Kerry co-authored PRI’s new study “California Migrating,” which reveals the root causes of the outmigration by California residents and businesses. The state’s detrimental policies have reduced people’s quality of life and inhibited their ability to prosper. Kerry and Wayne discuss the reforms we need to bring people back to the state and reinvigorate the California dream.
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Progressives Side With Well-to-Do Seniors Over Patients in Need
Newsmax | Sally C. Pipes
October 21, 2021
In addition, the budget-reconciliation package aims to expand public coverage for low-income Americans. Already, about 75 million people get coverage through Medicaid. Democrats want to create a federally funded, Medicaid-like “public option” plan for the 4.4 million people who would be eligible for the program under the terms of Obamacare but live in one of the twelve states that have declined to expand their programs.
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Gallup Survey: Americans Push Back on Government Activism
Right By the Bay | Rowena Itchon
October 19, 2021
And for most of the last three decades, a majority of Americans agreed with the Gipper. Last year marked only the second time in Gallup’s 29-year trend that at least half of Americans endorsed a more active role for government. The only other time was in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks.
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Regulators blow the rapid antigen test opportunity
The Washington Examiner | Henry Miller and Andrew Fillat
October 20, 2021
These tests are focused on identifying individuals who are in their three-to-five-day period of maximum contagiousness, mostly before they are symptomatic. The tests generally involve putting a nasal swab and some reagent drops on a test card or test cassette that quickly displays two lines for positive or one for negative. Results are available in 10-30 minutes, in contrast to the slightly more accurate PCR tests, which measure viral RNA and take days to report results.
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