Prioritizing solutions to poverty will bring in revenue to our regional economy
By Laura Capps Costs of living on the Central Coast are skyrocketing, and poverty maintains a tight grip on the lives of too many of our residents. The 2020 Census calculated a 15.2% poverty rate for Santa Barbara County, one of the highest rates in the state that has the highest rate in the country. Read More →
Dubroff: Multiple cards in play as fallout from SVB failure persists
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SVB’s collapse and the feds response will continue to have ripple effects
Legendary investor Warren Buffett is famous for saying “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” Today, the “tide going out” is the rapid rise in interest rates that the Federal Reserve has implemented to combat inflation. When combined with leverage, the result is… nudity. The collapse of Silicon Valley Read More →
Our View: Bringing the brightest economic minds together
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Exempting military retiree pay could boost California’s high-tech workforce
California – one of the richest states in the nation – is the only state in America that fully taxes military retirement income, giving its 146,000 military retirees no tax breaks whatsoever on their service retirement. Why is California fully taxing its military retirees, defenders of our nation and hard-working citizens who often earned low Read More →
The changed landscape for buyers and sellers of tenant-occupied residential real estate
By Jessica Mullinix Spring of 2022 saw owners of residential real properties scrambling to sell in order to capitalize on high prices with buyers engaged in frenzied bidding to lock in lower interest rates before they increased. Tenant-occupied residential properties were no exception. Yet sellers and buyers of tenant-occupied residential properties considering evicting the tenants Read More →
This Black History Month, let’s reflect on how far we have come
By Jerry Abraham Since the COVID-19 vaccines were made available to Californians, we have worked hard to communicate the importance of everyone eligible getting vaccinated and boosted. A large part of this effort was eliminating the barriers that prevented our black and brown communities from equitable access to vaccines. The COVID-19 pandemic pushed health and Read More →
