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And The Damage From AB 5 Begins
Right By the Bay | Wayne Winegarden
May 6, 2020
Often leveraging technology, the gig economy empowers individuals to use their skills (e.g. web programming skills) or their assets (e.g. cars) to earn income on their own terms. Gig economy workers can set their hours and work schedules to fit their own individual needs and schedules. Since gig economy workers will often work for multiple companies, they can also benefit from having a more diversified source of income.
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Register today for PRI Webinar: Medicare for All and the COVID-19 Crisis with Sally C. Pipes ([link removed])
Hear from Sally C. Pipes, PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy, about how single-payer health care would be a disastrous solution for fighting this pandemic and those in the future.
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 @ 11 AM PST
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PRI Podcast: How California Can Embrace Entrepreneurship and Small Business in an Economic Downturn
PRI Next Round
May 4, 2020
Listen to a special presentation of PRI’s webinar featuring a panel of business experts and entrepreneurs analyzing how California can recover economically from the coronavirus pandemic. The panel looks at the current economic outlook resulting from the coronavirus pandemic and talks about current or new policies that should be passed, put on hold, or abolished to help Californians climb back up the economic ladder.
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Universal Basic Income — Just Another Welfare Program That Will Fail
Fox & Hounds | Kerry Jackson
May 5, 2020
Basic income schemes have fared no better than conventional welfare. Finland set up a pilot program in 2017, handing out about $685 a month to a “randomly selected group of 2,000 young unemployed and long-term unemployed Finns,” says the University of Helsinki.
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Coronavirus Chronicles: Why for Some Workers, Unemployment Makes More Sense
Right By the Bay Blog | Rowena Itchon
May 5, 2020
The CARES Act also allows people to quit and collect unemployment if they “self-certify” that they had to leave their jobs due to a COVID-19 situation. A valid reason includes if a person is the primary caregiver of children who are out of school. Rather than find other means of childcare (unemployed neighbors for example), many could just use the time to take the summer off.
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Is California Going To Open Without Newsom’s Approval?
Right By The Bay | Kerry Jackson
May 7, 2020
Houses of worship have also bypassed the governor’s orders. After a lawsuit was filed on behalf of three Southern California churches, Newsom and Attorney General Xavier Becerra agreed in late April, Fox 26 News in Fresno reported “that since cars are ‘technology,’ drive-in church services should be allowed under the state’s shelter-in-place rule.”
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In case you missed it: Online Learning and Homeschooling Options During the COVID-19 Crisis
Pacific Research Institute
May 4, 2020
Watch the latest Pacific Research Institute webinar featuring a panel of policy experts, education specialists, and homeschooling practitioners discussing how schools and parents have transitioned to schooling at home through the use of distance and online-learning tools and curricula.
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