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How Big-Box Retailers Can Revitalize Rural Health Care
Forbes | Sally C. Pipes
November 14, 2019
Millions of Americans struggle to get affordable, timely medical care. Roughly one-quarter of rural Americans haven’t been able to get needed care at some point in recent years, according to a May 2019 poll conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Kerry Jackson – The Great Blackouts of 2019
November 11, 2019
PRI Center for California fellow Kerry Jackson discusses the electricity shutoff that plunged some 3 million Californians into darkness. He reviews the history of California’s utility problems, the lack of market incentives for delivering power in the state, and examines the policy decisions that have contributed to the ongoing wildfire disaster.
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Newsom already has the power to remedy the power outages
Orange County Register | Daniel Kolkey
November 12, 2019
However, the governor himself holds the power to mitigate the need for such widespread power outages. The California Emergency Services Act grants the governor the power to declare a state of emergency to implement an accelerated program for reinforcing the state’s power infrastructure by lifting those statutes and regulations that require California utilities to divert their resources to meet expensive goals for renewable energy, instead of investing their funds to strengthen their infrastructure.
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Lance Izumi Discusses Warren Education Plan on WIBW Topeka
NEWSDAY NOW WIBW 580 | Lance Izumi
November 13, 2019
Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Director of Education Studies, talks about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s disastrous education plan with Nick Gosnell on WIBW in Topeka.
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NCAA coaching salaries and media deals show there’s no such thing as the “collegiate model”
Right By the Bay Blog | Evan Harris
November 12, 2019
The move by the NCAA is a vocal step in the right direction, but terminology like the “collegiate model” and “enhancing opportunities for student athletes” show that the NCAA’s scope may not result in freedom for the almost half million college athletes nationwide.
Traditional terms like “student athlete” have long been embraced by the NCAA to maintain the illusion of amateur sports, making money for everyone except the athletes themselves.
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Wayne Winegarden Discusses Drug Price controls on Jim Bohannon Show
The Jim Bohannon Show | Wayne Winegarden
November 13, 2019
Wayne Winegarden, Director for PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, discusses the many problems with drug price controls proposed in the United States and in other countries on the nationally syndicated Jim Bohannon Show.
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STEM-ming the Slide of Our Educational System
American Greatness | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
November 13, 2019
It is no accident that STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) programs produce the most lucrative jobs and careers. After all, it is impossible to be competent in these fields without the skills of analysis, logical reasoning, and the ability to interpret data. This is not axiomatic in many other fields of study. In fact, at some institutions and in some fields, the principal “educational” goal is merely to instill passion and ideology.
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