Kudos to Jason Richwine for his fine shoe-leather work in contacting the PPIC staff and determining that the ethnic incarceration figures provided in their 2006 report Who’s in Prison? were already ...

The Public Policy Institute of California recommended a number of policy actions in its latest report last week. One hurdle PPIC recognizes is that the farming sector “must prepare for future droughts ...

Reform is needed to strengthen California’s water trading market and minimize the impacts of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, according to a new report by the Public Policy Institute of ...

FINDINGS, AS WELL AS A LOCAL LEADER WHO IS FAR FROM SURPRISED. VICKI: BLACK AMERICANS MAKE UP 6% OF CALIFORNIA. REMEMBER THAT NUMBER, 6% THAT IS BECAUSE THE PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE EXPLAINS THE ...

An annual ritual around this time each year accompanies the Public Policy Institute of California poll release. PPIC asks voters how the state budget prioritizes spending and I point out that the poll ...

CONVINCE THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT VACCINATIONS ARE SAFE. TODAY THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS ARE HEADING BACK TO THE CLASSROOM. STOCKTON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT IS REOPENING CAMPUSES EVEN THOUGH THERE’S JUST A ...

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