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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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