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Wayne Winegarden Discusses Project Homekey Study on John and Ken Show

KFI-AM 640, Los Angeles | Wayne Winegarden
August 2, 2022

Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI Senior Fellow in Business and Economics, discusses the findings of his new study on Project Homekey (co-authored with Kerry Jackson) on the popular John and Ken Show on KFI-AM 640 in Los Angeles.

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Who Controls Spending Often More Important Than How Money Is Spent
Right by the Bay | Tim Anaya
August 5, 2022

“While many Californians are struggling to pay rent and put food on the table, Prop. 30 does not guarantee low income families will be able to buy (Zero Electric Vehicles). Most ZEVs are purchased by wealthy and upper middle-class Californians.”

If you think that quote is from the latest report from PRI’s Dr. Wayne Winegarden, who has gained national attention for his research showing that government electric car subsidies are just “costly subsidies for the rich,” ([link removed]) think again.

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Wildfire needs holistic approaches to be extinguished before it begins

Right by the Bay | Pam Lewison
August 2, 2022

A fire ([link removed]) in Paso Robles was recently stopped after just an acre burned. The quick stop was credited to the use of sheep and goats for “fuel abatement.”

After catastrophic wildfires have burned valuable land across the west in recent years, the deployment of grazing livestock to minimize fuel loads is a welcome change in policy for places previously resistant to the idea. Cattle, sheep, and goats will often remove understory in areas difficult for people to traverse with little to no supervision while providing other benefits to the landscape.

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A Student Issues a Stark Warning on the State of California Schools

Right by the Bay | Lance Izumi
August 1, 2022

While Governor Gavin Newsom was accepting a laughable award for California’s supposed innovation in education, student achievement in the state’s classrooms is spiraling downward due to failed government education policies.

The Education Commission of the States, which gave the innovation award ([link removed]) to California, lauded all the tax dollars that Newsom and the Legislature have poured into the state’s public schools, but, tellingly, did not cite a single performance indicator showing that all that spending improved student achievement.

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