California and the Bay Area have thrived creatively, economically and culturally because we attract top talent, encourage risk-taking and give people the flexibility and freedom
Mayor Ed Lee devoted his life to public service, to helping and fighting for those less fortunate and working to make San Francisco the great
The San Francisco Bay Area is an economic powerhouse. The region’s innovation industries, from high tech to biotech, helped lead California out of the Great
If you are worried about the drought, growing traffic, the funding at your children’s schools, or a whole host of other issues and you live
Almost above all else, businesses like certainty. When there’s uncertainty around decisions that can have a significant impact on strategy and bottom line, businesses understandably
This is a critical time for the Affordable Care Act, the health care reform law passed by Congress last year. There is much at stake – for businesses, for consumers and for our economy. At the Bay Area Council, we believe the entire business community can and must play an active and vocal role in keeping cost control at the center of the health care reform bull’s-eye.
Rising health care costs continue to be a scourge on our economy, sapping resources and capital, and hampering our efforts to put the Great Recession behind us and start creating jobs. While the current economic malaise has reduced the rate at which costs are increasing, spending on health care nationwide continues to outpace the economy. Projecting from the latest figures from the California HealthCare Foundation, California health care spending has risen by 225 percent over the past two decades.