Health Care: A Free-Market Approach
Health Care will be the hot topic for the California political community in 2007. The Pacific Research Institute offers its views.
What States Can Do to Reform Health Care: A Free-Market Primer
Getting Our Money’s Worth?
The Reason Foundation ranks state highway systems based on cost effectiveness. California is 48th.
15th Annual Performance of State Highway Systems
Gay Marriage as a Business Proposition
The gay marriage debate tends to be framed as a battle in the culture war, but the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law examines the impact on businesses. On balance, researchers see good things for businesses and public coffers.
The Effect of Marriage Equality and Domestic Partnership on Business and the Economy
How to Make It in the World
With another tech boom underway, the Bay Area Economic Forum presents essays on global competition and the business climate.
The Innovation Edge: Meeting the Global Competitive Challenge
The Latest on Global Warming
Environment California Research and Policy Center summarizes what it sees as the evidence of global warming.
Feeling the Heat: Global Warming and Rising Temperatures in the United States
Health Care for Children: Three Easy Steps
How to expand health care for children? The California Healthcare Foundation offers a recipe. First, simplify. That means streamlining a welter of programs. Second, automate. Technology can be our friend. And third, follow the leader. Some counties are already doing great things. Others should follow suit.
Simplify, Automate and Follow the Leader: Lessons on Expanding Health Coverage for Children
What Works in Schools
PACE examines efforts to improve student achievement at three case-study districts: Lemon Grove, Long Beach, and Ceres.