As we gather with family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, PRI is grateful for your support of our work throughout 2019.
Dear Friends of PRI,
As we gather with family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, PRI is grateful for your support of our work throughout 2019.
I am incredibly thankful for the hard work of our PRI team, who have been at the forefront of important policy debates in Sacramento and Washington this year over health care, school choice, government energy mandates, poverty and homelessness, and preserving economic opportunity for all.
Here are a few of our 2019 accomplishments for which we are all so proud:
I worked tirelessly to educate Americans about the dangers of the "Medicare for All" plans advocated by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders through an hour-long appearance on “Life, Liberty, and Levin” on Fox News, an Intelligence Squared debate on single-payer health care in New York (which I won with my debate partner), and my upcoming book from Encounter Books, False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All.
PRI’s Center for Education, under the leadership of senior director Lance Izumi, released Choosing Diversity, a highly-praised book showing how charter schools are meeting the diverse needs of students and parents; and the mini-documentary, “Welcome to Change,” which shows how a charter school on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay is helping students overcome significant adversity.
This spring, PRI launched its new Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, led by our Dr. Wayne Winegarden and featuring the work of renowned scholar Dr. Henry Miller. Building on PRI’s decades of leadership as a champion of a U.S. health care system that provides better quality and access to new medical advances, the Center researches and advances policies that support the continued viability and vitality of the U.S. biomedical and pharmaceutical industries to the benefit of patients and overall economic growth.
PRI’s Center for Business and Economics launched a new series by Dr. Wayne Winegarden called Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity, which encourages policymakers to embrace free-market reforms that promote entrepreneurship as one of the most important things that can be done to help low-income and immigrant entrepreneurs climb the economic ladder and lift themselves out of poverty.
Kerry Jackson, senior fellow with PRI’s Center for California Reform, wrote an op-ed that appeared in more than a dozen newspapers statewide showing how a law restricting independent contractors will hurt economic opportunity; released Living in Fear in California, a book documenting how Sacramento policy mistakes are increasing crime rates, and published important new work on San Francisco’s homeless crisis (co-authored with Wayne Winegarden) and the state’s ongoing wildfire and power outage problems.
Altogether, PRI scholars have published more than 825 op-eds in online and print publications nationwide so far this year, been cited in nearly 2,400 media articles, spoke at dozens of events, and have given nearly 300 radio and television interviews.
Thanks to your generous support this year, PRI scholars have carried the torch of liberty in California and nationwide, advocating for the free-market reforms that we know are the right solutions to our numerous public policy challenges. The stakes will be even higher in 2020, and PRI’s free-market leadership will be needed more than ever before.
