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Assembly Bill 5 is already destroying jobs and opportunities
Orange County Register | Kerry Jackson
December 31, 2019
Some of the heaviest bloodshed has been at Vox, which fired more than 200 California freelance writers. While 10% will reportedly be hired for part-time and full-time work, that still leaves more than 180 freelancers without their paying gigs. Only a few months earlier, Vox was delighted by the passage of AB5.
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Listen to PRI's "Next Round" Podcast
3rd Annual PRI All-Stars Year End Awards
December 23, 2019
Back once again with their popular holiday tradition, the PRI All-Stars get together for our annual entertaining look back at 2019. We hand out our annual awards for the biggest winners and losers of 2019 in the worlds of politics and policy. Stay tuned to the end to hear our predictions for who will be the Democratic presidential nominee and America’s 2020 presidential choice.
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Joe Biden’s healthcare plan is malarkey
Washington Examiner | Sally C. Pipes
January 2, 2020
That’s malarkey. Private insurers must cover their costs to survive. The government, on the other hand, can run a money-losing operation. So, the public option will have the ability to underprice private insurers until they’re out of business.
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A Ghost in the Machine?
Right By the Bay Blog | Bartlett Cleland
January 2, 2020
AI is about what can be delegated to the computer as an extension or enhancement to the brain just as an exoskeleton is for human physical capabilities. With AI, computers will do more than they do now as an ever increasingly useful tool to get humans to the same place they were headed, but perhaps a bit faster. Humans will not be giving up the ghost to the machine.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Everything You Need to Know About Britain, Boris and Brexit – Luncheon and Discussion with Dr. Eamonn Butler
Join PRI for a luncheon and discussion featuring Dr. Eamonn Butler, Director at the Adam Smith Institute of London. Dr. Butler will look at all things Brexit, including the outcomes and possibilities of the December UK elections, the impact of Boris Johnson, and more.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
11:30 Registration
12:00 Luncheon
The University Club
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
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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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2020 California “Ideas in Action” Policy Conference
As California enters a new decade, policymakers should look to the free market for solutions to the issues shaping up as the state’s major challenges over the next ten years – health care, entrepreneurship and the future of work, homelessness, and education.
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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