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In The Great Equity Epidemic, Lance Izumi & Wenyuan Wu profile courageous people who stood up against "equity" policies that lowered standards, undermined merit, weakened discipline & politicized classrooms. Buy a copy at your favorite online bookstore. amazon.com/Epidemic-Stude…

"Housing built to be affordable for higher-income renters and buyers might not directly help lower-income renters and buyers, but they serve a need that, in turn, means those same higher-income renters and buyers aren’t competing with lower-income people for finite housing. Supply is essential to achieving housing affordability. And, yes, of course developers are the ones who are going to get things built." writes PRI's Sal Rodriguez.

Read "Salt Lake City considers zoning update to boost housing" here: pacificresearch.org/salt-lake-city…

"Washington should be strengthening America’s advantages in pharmaceutical innovation, not undermining them. We won’t beat China by handcuffing our own drugmakers." writes PRI's Sally Pipes.

Read "US Can’t Beat China by Handcuffing Our Stateside Pharma" in Newsmax here: pacificresearch.org/us-cant-beat-c…

A mother challenges what happened to her son after he objected to DEI instruction. A school board member builds a coalition to end her district’s equity policies. A professor takes his own college to court after speaking out.

These are some of the stories at the heart of The Great Equity Epidemic, the new PRI book from Lance Izumi and Wenyuan Wu about Americans standing up for academic excellence, merit, and equal opportunity.

California’s insurance market is showing signs of stabilization. Growth in FAIR Plan policies has slowed, while several major insurers have announced plans to expand underwriting.

But significant challenges remain, including affordability. Greenhut argues policymakers should allow recent reforms to work rather than return to policies that contributed to the insurance crisis.