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Tapping into California’s unparalleled Energy Capacity
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For decades, California’s leaders have tinkered with the state’s energy market to often disastrous effects. A poorly implemented deregulation scheme in the late 1990s and corresponding price caps led to energy shortages and rolling blackouts. In recent decades, extreme environmentalism has motivated bureaucrats and politicians alike to restrict the sources…
View EntryGetting the California Economy Working Again
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Industrious and innovative citizens who believe in the pursuit of prosperity have long been the backbone of California’s economy. Drawn to California’s abundant opportunities, workers and entrepreneurs flocked to California during much of the last century, driving the state’s exponential growth. However, there’s a problem. Once a magnet for those…
View EntryEstablishing Common Sense Solutions for the California Homelessness Crisis
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A U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) survey conducted in 2020 places the Nation’s homeless population at around 580,000 people (HUD, 2021). That same year, the California State Senate estimated that some 28 percent of the Nation’s homeless population resided in California, despite the state making up only…
View EntryAccountability in America’s Public Schools
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INTRODUCTION The COVID-19 pandemic revealed longstanding issues in America’s public schools, many of which have been exacerbated by flaws in current accountability models. While this crisis has resulted in some states making legislative efforts to increase transparency, little attention has been paid to accountability. While the federal government furnishes accountability…
View EntryThe Biden Administration’s Anti-Worker Economy
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This month marks three years since President Biden took office, promising to empower workers, protect the middle class, and unleash economic prosperity across the nation. Unfortunately, the data tell the opposite story. Federal overspending has contributed to an 18 percent surge in prices, and inflation reached a 40-year high of…
View EntrySTATEMENT: America First Observes Holocaust Remembrance Day
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the America First Policy Institute released the following statement from its President and CEO, Brooke Rollins, in recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This important day was established in memory of the victims of a singularly monstrous genocide and to encourage countries around the world never…
View EntryNEWS RELEASE: America First Urges Collegiate Student Governments to Condemn Antisemitism, Recognize Holocaust Remembrance Day
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) sent a model resolution to student government leaders across the country, encouraging them to denounce antisemitism on their campuses in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. The nationwide surge in violence and harassment targeting Jewish students on…
View EntryStatement: Steve Yates Applauds AFIDA Improvements Act of 2024 to Protect U.S. Agricultural Land from the CCP
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released the following statement from Steve Yates, Chair of the China Policy Initiative at AFPI, applauding the introduction of the AFIDA Improvements Act of 2024: “Foreign entities have acquired tens of millions of acres of U.S. agricultural land. This poses a…
View EntryCondemning Jew-Hatred and Fighting Holocaust Denial
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Introduction AFPI’s model resolution, “Condemning Jew-Hatred and Fighting Holocaust Denial,” is designed to be adapted by student senators for their respective universities. The resolution’s purpose is to draw attention to the abject failure of many university administrations to condemn rampant antisemitism on their own campuses. University leaders also have an…
View EntryNational School Choice Week 2024: The Education Freedom Revolution
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Kicking off National School Choice Week 2024: Tune in for a robust conversation between the top school choice leaders in the country. In a discussion facilitated by AFPI Chief Engagement Officer Ashley Hayek, Center for Education Opportunity and Center for the American Child Director Dr. Laurie Todd-Smith, Speaker of the…
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