Kerry Jackson Quoted in Associated Press on Newsom's New Minimum Wage Increase in January
 

Associated Press | Kerry Jackson
May 12, 2022

Pacific Research Institute’s, Kerry Jackson, was quoted in the Associated Press on Governor Newsom’s $15.50 per hour minimum wage increase set to take place January of 2023:

The increase will impact smaller companies the most, which will see the minimum wage jump $1.50 in January. Kerry Jackson, a fellow at the conservative-leaning Pacific Research Institute’s Center for California Reform, said the increase could cause some employees at smaller companies to work fewer hours.

“It may be very painful for them,” he said.
 

California is Trying to Force an Automobile Outcome

Real Clear Markets | Kerry Jackson & Wayne Winegarden
May 11, 2022

California is getting serious about killing off cars and trucks that burn gasoline and diesel. The governor has ordered it so and an unelected bureaucracy is putting together a schedule for the transition. But no matter how determined they might be, they can’t squeeze a diamond from a lump of coal.
 

To Make California Dream a Reality for All, Remove Homebuilding Roadblocks
 

Right by the Bay | Tim Anaya
May 12, 2022

California’s median home price set a new record of $849,080 in March, according to the latest figures from the California Association of Realtors.  In 35 of California’s 58 counties, 50 percent or more of the homes sold above the asking price in March. 


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The Data is In: California No Better Off Under Plastic Bag Ban
 

Right by the Bay | Kerry Jackson
May 10, 2022

Newton’s third law says that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Politicians know this as the law of unintended consequences. They are well aware of its existence and have seen up close the damage it can do. Still, they make laws they know they shouldn’t.

The ban on single-use plastic bags in retail stores is one of them.


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Where is California Growing?
 

Right by the Bay | M. Nolan Gray
May 11, 2022

Much has been made of the decline of California over the last year, and not without reason—the Golden State lost 173,000 residents last year. Worse yet, that’s probably an improvement: by one estimate, 650,000 people left California in 2020. Indeed, as a result of population stagnation over the 2010s, we recently lost a Congressional representative for the first time in state history.


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