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Wayne Winegarden
WAYNE WINEGARDEN, PhD, is a senior fellow in business and economics at PRI and director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation. Also the principal of an economic advisory firm, he has published in the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Investor’s Business Daily, Forbes.com, and USA Today.
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Read MoreIn San Diego, not far from the gates of the fantasy world at Disneyland, tent cities lining the freeways remind us of an ugly reality. Homeless individuals are slowing rail traffic between Sacramento and the Bay Area and swarming subway trains in Los Angeles in search of a place to sleep when they’re not languishing on Skid Row.
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