Cold Medicine

Emmanuel Saez, an economist at UC Berkeley, was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, which is given to the most promising economist under the age of 40, the Wall Street Journal reports. Saez is 36.

The California Nurses Association and affiliates have launched a national ad campaign in favor of Medicare-for-all-style health-care reform that so far has cost “just under $200 grand,” according to a CNA official.

Republican state lawmakers have proposed using $1 billion in stimulus money to give taxpayers refunds.

The $20 million in proposed emergency funding for Metro appears in jeopardy, the transit agency said Friday.

A pair of pediatric cancer researchers at Duke University have received $400,000 to fund their work over the next two years – part of $4 million in grants announced Friday by Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer.