California Must Cut Spending and Restructure

Don’t Restructure Electricity; Deregulate

Concern over the U.S. electric power industry has produced proposals for massively changing the industry. These alterations are often incorrectly described as deregulation. What actually is advocated is regulator-imposed alterations in the structure of the industry. This paper argues that conventionally defined deregulation, removal of governmental controls, is preferable. The theoretic and pra...

Evaluation of Transportation Practices in the California Cut Flower Industry

In the past two decades, California's share of the national cut flower market has decreased from 64 percent to 20 percent. California growers' largest competitors are South American growers; Colombia controls 75 percent of the US market. South American growers have several competitive advantages, including the favorable trucking rates they enjoy by consolidating all shipments in Miami, Florida ...

California hospital, school district collaborate to cut obesity-related risks.

Interventions to facilitate health workforce restructure

There are recognised shortages in most health professions in Australia. This is evidence that previous attempts at health workforce planning have failed. This paper argues that one reason for such failure is the lack of appropriate structures for health workforce planning. It also suggests that Australia needs to move beyond planning for particular professions and that health workforce planning...

Does state budget pressure matter for uncompensated care spending in hospitals? Findings from Texas and California.

OBJECTIVE This study examined the impact of state budget cuts on uncompensated care at general acute care hospital organizations. This study capitalized on the variations in the states of Texas and California to form a natural experiment testing the joint impact of budget cut status on uncompensated care costs, as well as specific charity care costs and bad debt expenses from indigent patients....