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Eliminating barriers to entrepreneurship will help immigrants, poor
The Columbus Dispatch | Wayne Winegarden
January 13, 2020
And yet, poverty continues to be persistent nationwide. Tens of thousands of people are homeless in Los Angeles. The number of homeless people in San Jose, California, has climbed 42% in the past two years. Even in smaller cities with lower costs of living — from San Antonio and Columbus to Tampa and Charleston, West Virginia — many families are having difficulty making ends meet.
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Why the Pelosi and Newsom Approaches to Prescription Drugs Won’t Really Help Patients
January 13, 2020
Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, breaks down recently-proposed plans in Washington and Sacramento that emphasize price caps and more government control to address prescription drug prices. He discusses the conclusions of his new study on America’s drug pricing challenge, which makes the case that system-wide reforms to improve the complex drug supply chain and increase transparency are what’s needed to lower health care costs.
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Bernie’s ‘Medicare-for-all’ misinformation — learn these facts before this week’s debate
Fox News and Real Clear Health | Sally C. Pipes
January 12, 2020
These wait times add to the cost of “free” health care. Absence and reduced productivity of sick workers cost the United Kingdom around 23 billion pounds each year. The truth about “Medicare-for-all” is ugly. Americans watching the debate this week must not fall prey to the falsehoods on health care that will no doubt be flowing from the candidates’ mouths.
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Enacting UBI Would Bust Federal Budget, Rob Americans of More Prosperous Future
Right By the Bay Blog | Damon Dunn
January 14, 2020
These are clearly not the conditions to support a radical, untested financial upheaval for every American. Given this, how are modern-day UBI proponents planning to sell us on their scheme? To their credit, they generally do not try to pretend as if the current incredible economy is not real. This remains the favored tactic of the old school socialists like Bernie Sanders who have resorted to arguing that low unemployment is somehow not a positive.
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Henry Miller explains the threat from new viral outbreak in China on the Lars Larson Show
The Lars Larson Show | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
January 14, 2020
Henry Miller, M.S, M.D., details the outbreak of a new type of viral outbreak that originated in China and how the United States can better prepare for the spread of epidemic virus. The virus could be similar to the SARS virus outbreak and has spread to Japan.
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Could National Water Pipeline Be the Solution to State’s Water Scarcity?
Right By the Bat Blog | Kerry Jackson
January 15, 2020
Consequently, water is an ever-unfolding story here. The local-state-federal battles over the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta seem to never end, snowpack in the Sierra Nevadas, or the lack thereof, is routinely a newsworthy event, and rumors and misunderstandings about residential water use — “will I be fined for taking a shower and using my washing machine on the same day?” — are good for stirring up a regular fuss.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Young Leaders Circle: Untangling Blockchain and Cryptocurrency in 2020
PRI’s Young Leaders Circle will bring together a panel of industry experts to discuss blockchain and cryptocurrency. Leaders in academic research, private business, and the regulatory space will examine regulations on blockchain and cryptocurrency, benefits and challenges to the emerging technologies, and look at how the two concepts are being adopted around the world in the free market.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
6 p.m. Happy Hour
6:45 p.m. Panel Begins
Neyborly – The Mezzanine
600 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
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National School Choice Week Event: The State of School Choice in California in 2020
As California celebrates National School Choice Week, the future of charter schools is uncertain following legislation enacted in 2019. Join Pacific Research Institute Senior Director of Education Studies Lance Izumi as he leads a panel of education reform experts at the State Capitol in discussing the impact of last year’s legislative changes, 2020 legislative efforts that could impact school choice, and reform ideas to
preserve and expand school choice options for students and parents. This event is free and a lunch will be provided, but please RSVP as space is limited.
Featured Speakers:
Lance Izumi, Senior Director of PRI’s Center for Education
Larry Sand, President, California Teachers Empowerment Network
Assemblyman Kevin Kiley, Vice-Chair, Assembly Education Committee
Friday, January 31, 2020
State Capitol, Room 125
Sacramento
12 - 1 p.m.
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2020 California “Ideas in Action” Policy Conference
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 California power outages, barriers to entrepreneurship, school choice, and homelessness.
Also, an evening 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 will be held.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Hyatt Regency Sacramento
Capitol View Room (15th Floor)
1209 L Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
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Young Leaders Circle: How Entrepreneurship Can Bring Low-Income Entrepreneurs Out of Poverty with Dr. Wayne Winegarden
Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI’s Senior Fellow in Business and Economics and the Director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, will share challenges and solutions from his new study on entrepreneurship “Entrepreneurship as a Pathway to the American Dream.”
Thursday, February 20, 2020
6 p.m. Happy Hour Begins
6:45 p.m. Moderated Interview Begins
University Club
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
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