Class is Canceled
What to know: College classes throughout California are canceled, as the largest strike in the history of U.S. higher education shuts down the University of California system.
The TPPF take: Once again, California is showing us the future — and it’s wracked with labor strife, high prices, government bloat and abject failure. And nowhere is this more apparent than in California’s government education system.
“The vaunted UC system employs 48,000 unionized students to teach, grade papers, and conduct research,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “That might make some wonder what it is exactly that tenured professors do all day other than dream up new woke nightmares to visit upon the nation in coming years.”
For more on the UC strikes, click here.
Border Chaos
What to know: The U.S. Supreme Court has heard a case involving the Biden administration’s immigration policies. TPPF attorneys are a part of the lawsuit brought by the state of Texas against the administration over illegal immigration.
The TPPF take: The Biden administration can’t simply choose to stop enforcing the laws.
“This case is about who decides immigration policy, whether that’s the legislative branch or the executive branch, and ultimately, whether or not states like Texas have the right to get into court to challenge immigration policies that ultimately affect the state’s bottom line,” says TPPF’s Chance Weldon.
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High Profile Failure
What to know: Phoenix, like Austin, followed California’s “Housing First” approach to homelessness—the results are equally disastrous.
The TPPF take: The 2013 one-size-fits all institutionalization of Housing First wholly defunded services, instead funneling all funding into housing subsidies.
In California— the only state to fully adopt Housing First in 2016— unsheltered homelessness grew by 47.1%, despite a 33% increase in the number of housing units dedicated to the homeless. In Austin, unsheltered homelessness grew by 93%. “Homeless policy must fund services to address the underlying diseases with which the homeless struggle—mental illness and substance abuse, as documented by the UCLA Policy Lab,” says TPPF’s Michele Steeb. “Until this time, the homeless and their communities will continue to perish.”
For more on homelessness, click here.