Acting Out the Minimum Wage Drama
“All the world’s a stage,” wrote William Shakespeare, and political theater on the hot topic of the minimum wage is playing out in smaller Los Angeles theaters. We’re not talking about minimum wage as the topic of a play, but minimum wage as the subject of who goes on stage. When the leadership of Actors […]
Good Bills Are Focus of CalChamber Job Creator List
Since 2008, CalChamber has been identifying bills that will improve the state’s job climate and stimulate our economy. We put them on our annual “Job Creator” list hoping to put a spotlight on proposals that will encourage investment in our economy. Last week, we released the 2015 “Job Creator” list. This year’s list includes 11 […]
CEQA: California Dreamin’ or California Nightmare?
Our recent report on “California Social Priorities” — released by Chapman University’s Center for Demographics and Policy and the topic of the first meeting of the Houston based Center for Opportunity Urbanism — stirred up some controversy. A largely negative response came from Josh Stephens from the California Planning and Development Report. As a lifelong […]
Elementary Indoctrination
To say California’s teachers’ unions wield outsize influence over state education policy is hardly novel. From setting tenure rules to rewriting dismissal statutes and blocking pension reforms, the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers roam the halls of the legislature like varsity all-stars. But less well known are the unions’ efforts to […]