Posts By: Tom Nassif

Taking a “Fearless and Moral Inventory” of the ESA

Last month, I began a series on the need for federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) reform.  I used the analogy of addiction recovery, in which the first step is to acknowledge the problem. Extending this metaphor to politics, I noted that few members of Congress are willing to publicly admit that the ESA is fundamentally ...

What Will Raising the Minimum Wage Mean for California Agriculture?

In a recent National Geographic article by Tracie McMillan, U.C. Davis agricultural labor economist Philip Martin asserts that raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour – as was recently signed into law in California – will have a negligible impact on the prices consumers pay in the produce aisle.