Paying for Single-Payer: Put Up or Move On
Since the best feature of the Healthy California Act is that all health care will be free, it seems churlish to suggest that someone...
Global Trade Yields Economic Advances
As the new administration and 115th Congress get to work, the California Chamber of Commerce is communicating its international trade priorities and support for...
Improving a Good Thing: Legislature Can Make Regulatory Reform Even Better
One of the few significant pro-business reforms to emerge from the Legislature during the recession was a more robust cost-effectiveness requirement for administrative regulations.
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Analysis Finds California Factors Dampen Upward Mobility for Poor
Children born to low-income parents in California have slightly higher lifetime earnings than children born to low-income parents in other states—but not because they...
More Transparency in Politics, Policy
“Transparency” may be more than just a buzzword come 2017.
Proposition 54, teed up for the November ballot, would mandate the Legislature enforce a three-day...
State Has Slow-Motion Housing Emergency
The state is under-building by tens of thousands the new houses and apartments each year that are needed to meet demand. As a result,...
Trade Expands Economy, Opportunities
As trade is being widely discussed on the national political scene, making sure U.S. businesses—from light manufacturers to service providers—benefit from higher growth, employment...
Use Market Pricing to Cut CO2 Emissions
Nobody should be surprised that California’s cap-and-trade program is the most cost-effective strategy to reduce carbon emissions. What’s astonishing is that policymakers insist on...
California Must Address Our Uneven Recovery
Governor Jerry Brown has proposed a state budget brimming with new revenues, but carefully socking part of the surplus away for a future economic...
Deceptive Proposed Initiative Would Disrupt Vital Infrastructure Projects in California
At a time when California is running far behind making even the basic investments in maintaining our vital infrastructure, a proposed 2016 ballot measure...
Trade Essential for Economic Growth, Jobs
Making sure U.S. businesses—from light manufacturers to service providers—benefit from higher growth, employment and wages due to increased exporting is key to expanding the...
Top-Two Primary Reform Promising
The recent Institute of Governmental Studies post-election seminar in which I was a panelist produced a few news stories and a mountain of academic...
CalChamber Perspective on Top Two Reform
The recent Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) postelection seminar in which I was a panelist produced a few news stories and a mountain of...
Next Steps for Climate Change Law in State
When Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. spoke to the United Nations Climate Summit last month, he made a strong pitch for state and local...
Yes on Proposition 2 to Prevent Boom-and-Bust California Budgets
Benjamin Franklin said the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. In California, add two more: drought and boom-and-bust tax revenues. What...
Environmental Law Reform: Best Prospect Appears at California Supreme Court
The best prospect for reform of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is no longer with the Legislature or the Governor, but at the...
An Unhealthy Dependence on the Rich
Upper-income taxpayers are paying the highest share ever of the California personal income tax.
This is good news in good times, but underscores the need...
