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Rent Control Can't Stop Soaring Rents
Right by the Bay | March 28, 2022
Rowena Itchon
California’s sky-high rental housing rates are now being felt by the rest of the country. Apartment List’s most recent report in February showed that rents grew 17.6 percent ([link removed]) annually for all housing types and increased 0.6 percent ([link removed]) over the month. This tracks the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (CPI), which also reported a month-to-month increase of 0.6 percent ([link removed]) — the highest level in 35 years. And the worst is yet to come. The CPI rent data is a lagging indicator because it doesn’t factor in new leases.
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Sally Pipes Quoted in Ken Artz's Column in April's "Health Care News": "Single-Payer Health Care Stalls in California"
Health Care News | Ken Artz
April, 2022
A bill to establish a state-run, single-payer health care system in California was stopped without a vote in the state Assembly after supporters realized they didn’t have enough votes to pass it.
A.B.1400 would have begun a state takeover of private insurance, Medicare, and Medi-Cal at a cost of $391 billion a year, says Sally C. Pipes, president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Research Institute.
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California Burning
PRI Next Round Podcast | Panel Discussion
March 28, 2022
California once again experienced one of the largest wildfires in state history in 2021, in the shadow of a severe drought that is increasing fire danger. In this panel discussion from PRI’s annual Ideas in Action Conference in Sacramento, policy experts discuss what can be done to reduce wildfires and reform the state’s water policies. The speakers include Steven Greenhut, author of the PRI book Winning the Water Wars; the Hon. Daniel Kolkey, PRI Board Member and Chair of the California Reform Committee; the Hon. James Gallagher, California State Assemblymember of the 3rd District; and Brian Isom, Research Manager, Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University.
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Who Grows Your Peaches?
Right by the Bay | Pam Lewison
March 31, 2022
In 1973, March 22 was designated National Ag Day ([link removed]) by the Agriculture Council of America and the inaugural celebration of the day was in 1979. Since the inception of National Ag Day, it has been expanded to encompass the week that March 22 falls in each year.
I have to wonder how much headway the goal of National Ag Week – creating awareness about the role of agriculture in modern society – is really making. Some farmers and ranchers aren’t even aware of the opportunity this week provides to actively reach out to consumers, lawmakers, and influencers about how agriculture is still relevant in today’s world.
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Life in the Dry Lane
Right by the Bay | Kerry Jackson
March 29, 2022
In the Los Angeles Times, a recent series of letters ([link removed]) suggested that because “California and the western United States more broadly are becoming drier,” it’s time to “change the way we live,” and “low-flow toilets and faucets and showers aren’t enough.”
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