In an interview with Axios on HBO, President Donald Trump discussed his plans to discontinue the practice of automatically granting U.S. citizenship to all babies born on U.S. soil. “It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don’t,” the President said. “You can definitely do it with an...
Continuing a series of California and Texas comparisons, this piece examines the two most-populous states’ housing policies. California and Texas have a lot in common; they’re both big and diverse. It’s politics (and the public policy that results) that most separate these two states. But in one area, housing, Texas is increasingly in danger of...
Continuing a series of California and Texas comparisons, this piece examines the two most-populous states’ key wellbeing indicators. More than one in every five Americans calls California or Texas home. For decades, California has been America’s bellwether—if you don’t believe it, just ask Californians. From Hollywood to Silicon Valley to the state’s politicians and public...
California, with 39.5 million people, and Texas, with 28.3 million, are two of America’s four majority-minority states, the other two being Hawaii and New Mexico. As such, the education systems’ effectiveness in the two most diverse states that 1-in-5 Americans calls home is of vital interest to the rest of the nation. Because of the...
Continuing a series of California and Texas comparisons, this piece examines the two most-populous states’ oil and natural gas policies and outcomes. Policy matters. Even if a nation or state is endowed with significant natural resources, history shows that tax rates, regulatory burdens and rule of law largely determine whether those resources are harnessed or...
The two most-populous states, California and Texas, are home to one in five Americans. More alike than different in many aspects—diverse population and economy, abundant natural resources—the two states differ in one important respect: policy. With some exceptions, California is progressively liberal while Texas is free market conservative. These states’ similarities and differences invite comparisons...
The two most-populous states, California and Texas, are home to 67.8 million of America’s 325.7 million residents, some 20.8% of the population. These two big states are alike in many key respects, even while being very different in others. Both states are large in land area and population, blessed with abundant natural resources, and diverse....
States with a lower tax burden, such as Arizona, Florida, Nevada and Texas, created private sector jobs at almost double the rate of their high tax peers in the first nine months of the year, according to new government data. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published its monthly state-level jobs report last Friday, detailing...
The San Francisco Business Times featured a series of articles in mid-October chronicling the “Bay Area exodus” as California’s high housing costs, congestion, the nation’s highest marginal income tax rate, and heavy regulatory burden act to push out all but high-end tech companies. The business journal assembled a handy list of 31 San Francisco-region companies...
The Great Recession officially ended in June 2009, six months into former President Obama’s first term. The economy continued to shed jobs until the following March. Manufacturing was particularly hard hit, with almost 2.3 million manufacturing jobs—some 1 in 6—lost between January 2008 and March 2010. As is the case during recoveries, jobs bounced back,...
On June 1, 2016 at a town hall sponsored by PBS, Eric Cottonham, a steel workers’ union member from Indiana, asked President Barack Obama about manufacturing jobs creation, saying, “All of our jobs have left, or are in the process of leaving.”01:07 In response, Obama noted that some jobs have gone overseas and that “I’ve been trying...
In his first debate with Rep. Beto O’Rourke, a Democrat from El Paso, Sen. Ted Cruz promoted Texas’ low taxes and light regulations as essential to job creation, citing as evidence, “The cost of a one-way U-Haul from California to Texas is more than 300 percent the cost the other way around.” Why mention U-Haul at...