Can Californians Afford California (Part 1)
By many important measures, California has never been better off. Our state enjoys unprecedented wealth, employment and health. Our economy created 3.4 million jobs in the ten years since the worst of the Great Recession, a 24 percent growth spurt, driving the unemployment rate to a record low 3.9%. Our job growth has accounted for […]
Iowa Fiasco Fills This Californian With Dread
The Americans are not going to give us credit for taking our time. The deluge of anger against Iowa’s Democrats, for taking a full day to report the caucus results there, fills me with dread as a Californian. Because our primary results are going to take an awful long time—weeks literally–to be finalized. And that means Democrats […]
Let’s Repair Minimum Wage Law
Last week, I was up in Sacramento speaking with legislators on one of our monthly advocacy trips with our members of the Valley Industry and Commerce Association. A new year brings new bills: hundreds of ideas, some fresh, and some old. The new year also brings an opportunity to fix the unintended consequences of past […]