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public policy

[puhb-lik pol-uh-see]

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noun

1. the body of laws and other measures that affect the general public.
  These officeholders are creating public policy on important issues including affordable housing and the environment.
2. the underlying principles, values, or objectives that inform these laws and other measures: In a secular state, no religion can become the basis of public policy.
  The Institute participates in shaping public debate and public policy through inquiry and dialogue.
  In a secular state, no religion can become the basis of public policy.
Law.��the principle that injury to the public good or public order constitutes a basis for declaring an act or transaction illegal or invalid.
The principle of public policy requires that we judge the tendency of the contract at the time when it was entered into.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of public policy¹

First recorded in 1775–85

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The state is home to more immigrants than anywhere else in the country, a portion of which don’t have documentation, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.

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Bureau of Labor Statistics, and in California, 88% of those workers are Latino and 68% are immigrants, according to a 2024 report by the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank.

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A 2024 survey by the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire examined previous research into three infamous removals of legal and illegal immigrants from the U.S. workforce: the repatriation during the Great Depression of at least half a million people of Mexican descent, the 1964 end of the bracero program, and the removal of nearly half a million illegal immigrants during the Obama administration.

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“All of these proposals move in the same direction: fewer people enrolled, less generous Medicaid programs over time,” said Edwin Park, a research professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.

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Californians no longer support providing public healthcare for immigrants living here illegally, the independent Public Policy Institute of California reported.

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