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Project Homekey is expensive and ineffective. Let's shift to much more promising policies.
San Diego Union-Tribune | Kerry Jackson & Wayne Winegarden
October 26, 2022

Last month, San Diego officials announced that the county and city will be receiving nearly $12 million ([link removed]) in state Project Homekey funds to build housing for the homeless. It’s a publicly funded program that will, no doubt, be celebrated in the halls of government as a great step forward. For all its promise, though, Project Homekey is an expensive and ineffective program for addressing San Diego’s homeless crisis.

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Been There, Done That on Denying Americans the Freedom to Work as They Choose

Been There, Done That | Pacific Research Institute
October 26, 2022

President Biden has been a strong proponent of AB 5-style policies since he was running for president, when he opposed Proposition 22 ([link removed]) in California to change its restrictions for certain classifications of gig workers.

One of his first policy proposals as President was the PRO Act ([link removed]) , a measure that has languished in Congress to adopt AB 5-style restrictions on gig work nationally, saying that, “All of us deserve to enjoy America’s promise in full . . . and that starts with rebuilding unions . . . (who) lift up workers, both union and non-union (and) are critical to strengthening our economic competitiveness.”

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Another Government Program Won't Ease The Burden Of High Gas Prices

Economic Standard | Kerry Jackson
October 20, 2022

Further confirmation that California is on the wrong side of the rabbit hole came on the last day of September, when Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a new tax on oil companies in response to the high cost of gasoline.

“​​Oil companies are ripping you off,” he tweeted. “Their record profits are coming at your expense at the pump.

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Los Angeles: the city that organized labor wrecked

Free Cities Center | Will Swaim
October 27, 2022

Los Angeles kicked off its 2022 Indigenous Peoples Day celebration in inimitable style, with the release of a secret recording ([link removed]) in which top Latino city officials are caught disparaging indigenous people – as well as African Americans, Armenians, Jews and (generally lost in the reporting) “white guys.” City Council President Nury Martinez, who described some immigrants from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca as tan feos (so ugly) and described the black son of a council colleague as a changuito (little monkey), resigned days after the Los Angeles Times reported on the conversation. Two other councilmembers are under pressure to hit the road.

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