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Mar 2024
1h 14m

376: Will Swaim—An Unholy Incubator

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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The President of the California Policy Center, host of National Review's Radio Free California podcast, and watchdog journalist warns about the new federal regulation that effectively makes CA-AB5 national and ends independent contractor status as we know it. As goes California, so goes the nation—from a $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers to rampant homelessness, crime, and reparations—the recovering communist dissects examples of what's happening in the Golden State and yet to come nationally.

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