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 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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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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