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AB 32 was not Intended to be a Revenue Raiser
This weekend, Gov. Jerry Brown proclaimed that revenue from the cap-and-trade system under AB 32 will go toward the construction of California’s High Speed Rail project. AB 32 was not intended to be a...
View ArticleLet all California Employers Compete
On Friday, the Sacramento Bee’s Dan Walters chided the California Republican Party for opposition to all tax increases, even those that would close a “completely unjustified special interest tax...
View ArticleMoody’s Says Climate Change Rules are Emerging Risk for California Refiners
Only time will tell how much AB 32 will actually cost California. Since our landmark global warming bill passed in 2006 there has been no shortage of guessing about the costs and benefits of mandating...
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California’s Cap-and-Trade Auction Creates Billions in Needless Costs
Crossposted on MPowered The California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) cap-and-trade auction will create needless costs for employers at a time when our state must compete, scrap, wrangle, advocate and...
View ArticleWhen California Manufacturers Leave, you Won’t Hear a Howl
The California Business Alliance for a Greener Economy recently retorted in Fox and Hounds that the California manufacturers “continue to cry wolf”, after we wrote a piece on the needless employer...
View ArticleTheory Meets Reality on California’s Carbon Cap-and-Trade Program
Theory met reality on Tuesday at a Senate informational hearing on California’s carbon cap-and-trade program that is set to start with an auction in November 2012. Craig Anderson from Solar Turbines,...
View ArticleNo Need for Carbon Auction Says California’s Most Independent Voice
Last week the most independent voice in California policy analysis said the following in a letter: a cap-and-trade “allowance auction is not necessary to meet the AB 32 goal of reducing GHG emissions...
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More Data on California Being Outpaced by the Country
Discussions are increasingly centered around California’s job growth and business climate. We decided to look at employment versus population growth to see how the state fared against the country. We...
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Mounting Support for Competitive Tax Policy for Manufacturing Growth
In 2003 California manufacturers lost a sales tax credit on their capital equipment purchases, making them approximately six percent less competitive than manufacturers in most other states. Since...
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Manufacturing Gap Between US and California Grows
We updated our manufacturing employment numbers, comparing us to the nation. Since January 2010, the country has seen 4.5 percent growth with 517,000 new manufacturing jobs, while California has been...
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Perspective on Uptick in Manufacturing
The Sacramento Bee and others have written about recent statistics showing that California’s economy grew faster than the country in 2012. They have also pointed out that the state’s manufacturing gdp...
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California’s Clean Energy Drive will Increase Prices
California is a national leader in pushing renewable energy, lower greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency. State manufacturers have contributed to the effort by installing cost-effective...
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California Needs More Champions of Manufacturing
California’s manufacturers are capable of meeting extraordinary challenges and will be the engine of job creation if they have the resources skilled workforce and the long term support of state and...
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Is California Comfortable With Manufacturing Investment Levels?
California’s economy is improving. Our unemployment rate is down two percentage points over the last year and our state revenue growth has, for the first time in a while, allowed the Governor to...
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Updated California Manufacturing Investment
Last month we showed you how California shaped up for manufacturing investments in the first three quarters of 2013. We just got the fourth quarter numbers and we have updated our chart below to...
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Update On California’s Manufacturing Job Trend
California’s monthly jobs report last week showed that we lost another 1,700 manufacturing jobs even though the state added 11,000 non-farm jobs and our our overall unemployment rate stayed the same....
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A Look at Growth in Manufacturing and Other Sectors vs. The U.S.
In light of 4,600 new California manufacturing jobs reported in July, we thought we’d take a look at how some of the largest job sectors were doing against the rest of the country since we began to...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Plastic Bag Ban Will Cost Hundreds Of Good Manufacturing Jobs
The California Manufacturers & Technology Association clarified that California’s proposed plastic bag ban and paper bag tax contained in SB 270 will cost the state good paying manufacturing jobs....
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California Energy Policy Impacts Manufacturing Jobs
This week, Chris Busch, the Director of Research at Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology LLC wrote a piece that appeared in both LiveScience and CaliforniaCarbon.info. Essentially the piece praised...
View ArticleManufacturing Numbers in Perspective
Last week Dan Walters wrote a piece depicting the enormity of California’s manufacturing sector, using a recent 2012 Census Bureau report, which prompted tweets like the following: GO-Biz (@CAGoBiz)...
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