What if those numbers were reversed? What if we invested $45,000 a year in our state’s children, per child? It would be a different world, a better world. Imagine.
Archive for the ‘California Budget Crisis’ Category
21 Jun
UCLA Forecasts More Pain for California
The Anderson Forecast, a pricey report available to members only – and the press – forecast a slow recovery for California that won’t begin for another year or more. It predicts as many as 60,000 government-wide job losses, and an unemployment rate as high as 12.1 percent.
15 Jun
NY Times: Bail Out California – with Reforms
On May 22, NY Times Op-Ed contributor Joe Mathews, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, not asks if California is “too big to fail,” he makes a strong case for a federal bailout – with reform-strings attached:
15 Jun
Six-minute Video Explains How We Got Here
The video is courtesy of the chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, Noreen Evans, and it’s on YouTube:
15 Jun
LA Times: Interactive Budget Balancer
Try your hand at closing California’s $24,000,000,000 budget gap, using the Los Angeles Times’ Interactive Budget Balancer.
