The Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI) is a California-based free-market think tank which promotes "the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility" through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and limited government.[3] PRI was founded in 1979 by British philanthropist Antony Fisher and a San Francisco businessman James North.[4][5] The organization has an office in Sacramento California and their headquarters office in Pasadena California. [1]
Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy | |
Abbreviation | PRI |
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Formation | 1979 |
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Legal status | 501(c)(3) |
Purpose | public policy analysis |
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President | Sally C. Pipes[b] |
Chairman | Clark S. Judge[c] |
Revenue (2020) | $5,623,603[2] |
Expenses (2020) | $4,448,062[2] |
Website | pacificresearch |
The organization is active in the policy areas of education, economics, health care, the environment, and water supply.[6][7] It operates the Center for California's Future, which has a goal of "reinvigorating California's entrepreneurial, self-reliant traditions" and the Laffer Center, which is "focused on educating people on free-markets and supply-side economics."[8]
From 1996 through 2009, the organization published an annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, which tracked environmental trends worldwide. PRI started the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, a New York-based think tank focusing on health policy.[9]
In 2022, Pipes opposed federal efforts to cap copayments at $35 for insulin, and PRI opposed plans by California to back generic manufacturing of the drug.[10]
Sally C. Pipes has been president of the institute since 1991.[11][12] She writes a regular column for Forbes.com, focusing on health care in the United States.[13] In 2008 she founded the Benjamin Rush Institute as a conservative association for medical students with 20 chapters at medical schools across America.[12] She is originally from Canada and became a U.S. citizen in 2006.[12] She opposes single-payer health care systems.[10]
The current chairman of the board of trustees Clark S. Judge (since 2005) is also a cofounder of the White House Writers Group.[14]
PRI's total revenues in 2020 were $5.6 million, according to ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer database. [2] The Lilly Endowment, connected to Eli Lilly and Company, is a donor, contributing $175,000 a year in grants to PRI since 2015, according to The Intercept.[10]
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