Keep the ‘Affordable Care Act’ Affordable
California manufacturers are among the best friends the state’s economy can have. The sector pays an annual average of $74,000 in wages and traditionally is one of the best providers of health insurance for employees. You would think, then, that everyone on Team California would be pulling for this vital sector to remain healthy and growing. After all, over the last two years, […]
Senate Supermajority Pauses on Prop 13 Changes
Like the last minute of a close NBA basketball game, California’s senate supermajority called timeout before making its big play against Proposition 13. The senate considered four constitutional amendments that would raise taxes with a 55 percent vote instead of the two-thirds vote requirement that Proposition 13 imposes on special taxes for specific purposes. The […]
Are the Jobs Being Created in California Today Mainly Low Wage Jobs?
“Waiter and Waitress Nation” is the title of a recent posting by American Enterprise Institute economist James Pethokoukis. Of the 175,000 net payroll jobs added nationwide in May 2013, more than half were created by three sectors associated with lower wage jobs, the restaurant sector (38,100 jobs), retail trade (27,700) and temporary employment (25,600 jobs) […]
Is President Obama a Legal Reformer?
I will be honest: the title of this blog was a little hard to type. But I was reading an article in Reuters and it made me wonder: does the President believe in legal reform? On one level it would seem that he does. Just last week, he took steps intended to curb lawsuits brought by companies […]