Category Archives: Blog

02 Nov
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NEWS RELEASE: Treasury’s COINS Act Proposal Replaces Market Choices with Government Mandates, Putting Medicine Supply at Risk

WASHINGTON, DC – Recently, the U.S. Department of the Treasury proposed sweeping new restrictions under the Comprehensive Outbound Investment National Security (COINS) Act, which in part prohibits certain investments by US persons in companies abroad. The sweeping new proposed regulations ...

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23 Oct
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Crucial Questions Remain After Court Ruling in New Mexico’s Case Against Meta

A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion following a jury verdict finding violations of the state’s consumer protection laws. While the extraordinary penalty has driven the headlines, other details deserve attention: One question emerging from the ...

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13 Oct
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Regulatory Barriers Are Making California’s Nursing Shortage Worse

In a new opinion piece for The Orange County Register, HLF’s president addresses California’s dysfunctional nursing pipeline.  Many out-of-state nursing graduates whose goal it is to work in California face issues navigating the state’s licensing process.  Considering the state’s nursing ...

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17 Sep
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California’s War On Housing Algorithms Is Political Theater

In a new opinion piece for the Sacramento Business Journal, HLF’s president pushes back on California lawmakers’ latest attempt to scapegoat technology as the cause of the state’s affordable housing crisis. California’s continued war on pricing software highlights a misguided ...

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19 Aug
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Private Capital’s Role in Energy Infrastructure — the AES Corporation Deal

Research from the Energy Information Administration confirms that electricity demand is high and increasing faster than the grid can keep up with—which drives up consumer costs. Modernizing America’s energy infrastructure and stabilizing our power grid is a consumer imperative. Surging ...

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31 Jul
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A Bank Account Should Not Come with a Political Litmus Test

Few things are as essential to participating in the American economy as a bank account. It is how workers get paid, how families save for a home, and how small businesses make payroll. That is precisely why regulatory pressure on ...

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24 Jul
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Outlawing Pricing Algorithms Will Not Solve the Housing Crisis

HLF president Mario H. Lopez recently sent a letter to the editor, in response to a recent op-ed in California calling for ban on the use of artificial intelligence to set market-based rent prices in the state. Published in the ...

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24 Jul
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NEWS RELEASE: New Polling Shows 90% of Voters Support Expanding Reduced Title Insurance Fees, 89% Are More Likely to Back Candidates Who Champion It

WASHINGTON, DC — New national polling released today by the Hispanic Leadership Fund (“HLF”) finds overwhelming voter support for reducing title insurance costs: 90% of voters support expanding the program for reduced title insurance fees, and 89% say they would ...

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