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Entrepreneurship can be the antidote to poverty

San Francisco Chronicle | Wayne Winegarden
January 3, 2020

In other words, the War on Poverty has been fought to a draw, despite trillions of dollars in federal spending. Yet more spending is exactly what the leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination are calling for as part of their effort to alleviate poverty. There’s a better way to help people climb the economic ladder. And that’s by making it easier to be an entrepreneur.

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Lance Izumi Shares How Charter Schools Are Meeting Diverse Learning Needs

The Learning Curve Podcast, Pioneer Institute | Cara Candal and Bob Bowden
January 3, 2020

Lance Izumi joins co-hosts Cara Candal and Bob Bowden from the Pioneer Institute to talk all things charter schools on the Learning Curve podcast. Lance discusses his new book, Choosing Diversity, and the wide range of both the student populations served, and the variety of learning models offered, by the charter schools that he visited.

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Assembly Bill 5 is already destroying jobs and opportunities

Orange County Register | Kerry Jackson
December 31, 2019

The Pacific Legal Foundation is challenging AB5 in court on behalf of freelancers. But even if the freelancers win, they’ve still lost. First, there’s no guarantee the challenge will succeed. Second, having no recourse but to set in motion, and then endure, an uphill legal grind is its own punishment.

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** The 2020 California Vision:
How Free Market Ideas Can Address the New Decade’s Major Challenges
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Join us for PRI’s second annual California “Ideas in Action” Policy Conference and hear policy experts, opinion leaders, and real life changemakers at informative panel discussions on:

• Preventing Future Power Outages, Wildfires Through the Governor’s Executive Powers
• Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity
• School Choice as a Tool to Help Special Needs Students Beat the Odds
• Homelessness in California

Followed by a reception celebrating the publication of False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All by Sally C. Pipes, PRI President, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy
Wednesday, February 19
Hyatt Regency Sacramento, Capitol View Room (15th Floor)
Registration starts at 11:30 AM
Keynote luncheon feat. The Hon. Janice Rogers Brown* starts at Noon
Panel discussions from 1:30 to 5:30 PM
Reception celebrating False Premise, False Promise by Sally C. Pipes at 5:30 PM
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